Summary: in place of the post I had written for today, I invite you to see what you are able to make of some Modern Hebrew sketch comedy.
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Summary: A short television clip: speaking Hebrew in the workplace (humor).
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Summary: You have only a couple of days to catch up on the doomed NBC show “Kings.” If you do not, I revoke your right to complain about TV’s treatment of biblical themes.
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Summary: a characteristic of “Bible woo” is the promise of simple and comfortable explanations to inconvenient textual evidence.
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As fiction writers use “phlebotinum” to advance their plots, purveyors of pseudo-scholarship (or “woo-meisters”) misuse honest jargon as phlebotinum to create misleading accounts of the real world.
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How have I missed this? Kings on NBC: A show…based on the rise of David to the throne…set in a monarchy that is culturally and technologically more or less modern-day American. David Shepherd slays a Goliath-class tank, to become a feared darling in the court of King Silas of Gilboah, in the modern city of [...]
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