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"etrog" cracks me up (DBG)
| "'''""""'"' | 04/28/25 |
| "'''""""'"' | 04/28/25 |
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Date: April 28th, 2025 7:45 AM Author: "'''""""'"' you'll have these very serious and dense passages discussing the forms of god and the traits of the sages and then there will be a three paragraph "aside" going into detail about a fucking 40 denarii Canaanite lemon, a lemon that does not even taste particularly good mind you, and why you need a silver or ash or etc holder with these particular dimensions for both items sacrilegious or not and this is just from some cynical comparative anthropological reading experience it's like having a 70 AD yelp advertisement for Best Lydda Unleavened Bakers (don't buy from Greeks!) in the middle of the book of john. the old testament also has a few bits like this where i think worldly concerns snuck themselves in in a very oblique way and now these things are held up as extremely holy all of these millennia later |
Date: April 28th, 2025 7:56 AM Author: "'''""""'"' i'm pro canaanite lemon and understand the importance of it as ritual and symbol btw this is just an enduring source of amusement for me |