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21 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” 23 But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26 He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” 27 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’[f] table.” 28 Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that moment.

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"God made wild animals of every kind and cattle of every kind and al kinds of creeping things of the earth. And God saw that this was good. And God said, 'Let us make ahdam in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth.' And God created the adham in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said "Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and subdue it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky and all the living things that creep on the earth."

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16 In the towns of these people, however, which YHWH your God is giving you as an estate, you shall let no breathing creature live. 17 No, you shall surely put them under herem ('the ban') the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites--as YHWH your God has commanded you, 18 lest they lead you into doing all the abhorrent things that they have done for their gods and you stand guilty before YHWH your God.

For other towns: 10 “When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. 11 If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labor. 12 But if it does not accept your terms of peace and makes war against you, then you shall besiege it, 13 and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. 14 You may, however, take as your plunder the women, the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. 15 Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of these nations here.

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24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son [Ham] had done to him, 25 he said,

“Cursed be Canaan;
lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

26 He also said,

“Blessed by the Lord my God be Shem,
and let Canaan be his slave.

27 May God make space for Japheth,[c]
and let him live in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his slave.”

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And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

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Marcus Garvey - Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey_ Master of your Destiny

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Marcus Garvey, The Course of African Philosophy, 11-12

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- Discusses how anything in nature becomes "property"
- Lays the groundwork for appropriation of native land which isn't "properly" owned

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Use of Herem - Early Modern Christian Holy War

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Use of Herem - Early Modern Christian Holy War

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Use of Herem - Radical Settler Zionists Today

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Use of Herem - Radical Settler Zionists Today

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Christian Identity Movement (TW hate speech)

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Christian Identity Movement (TW hate speech)

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THE MESSAGE:- Most people are under the assumption that the Fall of white Adamic man in the Garden of Eden was brought on by Eve listening to the manipulative and deceitful words of a literal talking snake and Eve's eating of a literal piece of fruit that she took from the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.' In this message, I will show you that the Fall in the Garden was not brought on by what I just mentioned. Rather, using only the Scriptures, I will show you that the Fall was brought on by an unholy sexual union between Satan and Eve. In Gen. 3:1, we read of a 'serpent' appearing to Eve in the Garden of Eden. It's important to realize that the 'serpent' spoken of here was not a literal snake, but rather Satan in human form. The word 'serpent' here means 'Magician or enchanter. A spellbinder.' Check your 'Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible' for definition verification here. Now, in Rev. 12:7-9, we read about a war in Heaven, when Lucifer and the angels who followed him into rebellion against God were defeated by Michael and the angels who reamined loyal to the Almighty. Lucifer became 'that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan' (Rev. 12:9 - KJV). Now we know that when Satan is referred to as a 'serpent' here that it's not talking about him being manifest in the form of a literal snake. The same thing applies to the use of the word 'serpent' in Gen. chapter three. We also see in Rev. 12:9 that Lucifer and the rebellious angels lost their place in Heaven and were cast down to the earth. Back in Gen. 3:1, we read that the 'serpent' was 'more subtil (subtle) than any beast of the field' (KJV). The word 'subtil (subtle)' here means 'cunning or crafty (usually in a bad sense).' Again, consult Strong's for definition verification. So we see that a crafty 'serpent' had appeared to Eve in the Garden. It's important now to point out that the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil' was not a literal tree! The 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil', first spoken of in Gen. 2:9, was representative in a figurative sense of the Pre-Adamic (black & yellow) races and nations which surrounded the Garden in which Adam and Eve lived. (For the origins of the races, please request read the article titled 'Can Anyone Achieve Salvation?'. This article explains the origins of the Pre-Adamic races and the Adamic race.)

For good examples of how trees are used in a figurative sense to describe people, races and nations please read: Ezek. 31:3-9 (Assyrian Empire); Jer. 11:19 (about Jeremiah) and Matt. 3:10 (people standing judgement). We see in Gen. 3:3 that the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil' was the 'tree' that Adam and Eve weren't supposed to 'touch.' We know that literal trees posess no knowledge of good and evil. In Ezek. 31:9 it says (in reference to the vast Assyrian Empire) that 'all the trees of Eden, that were in the Garden of God, envied him' (KJV). Literal trees can't 'envy' anything. This Scripture is clearly showing us that the 'trees' spoken of here are merely figurative representations of races and nations that envied the Assyrian Empire. In Gen. 3:4-7, we see that Satan (the 'serpent') leads Eve astray and she in turn leads Adam astray as well. But, was the leading astray the simple eating of a literal piece of fruit from the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil'? The answer to that question is no.

First of all, we see in Gen. 2:25 that Adam and Eve were not ashamed of their nakedness. They obviously had the perfect bodies that God had intended for them when they were created. Now, notice after the Fall, in Gen. 3:7 & 10, that Adam and Eve were suddenly ashamed of their bodies. Why would you be ashamed of your body if all you had done was eat a piece of fruit? Now, back in Gen. 3:3, Eve tells Satan that neither she nor Adam can 'touch' the 'fruit' of the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil' because if they do, they'll die. The word 'touch' here means 'to lay hands upon, to lie with.' See Strong's again. When you 'lie' with someone in this capacity, it's obviously sexual in nature. The words 'eat' or 'ate' when used in these passages do not mean the literal consumption of food. The words 'eat' or 'ate' when used in the first 15 verses of Genesis chapter three means '(lit. or fig.) to consume, devour (partake).' Consult Strong's one more time. When you partake in something, that means you are engaging in an activity. And Eve certainly did partake here! She engaged in sex with Satan (the 'serpent') who appeared to her in human form and sexually seduced her. In Gen. 3:13, we read that Eve, called in front of God to account for her misdeed said, 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat (partake)' (KJV). The word 'beguiled' here means to 'morally seduce.' IT'S NOT A MORAL SEDUCTION TO EAT A LITERAL PIECE OF FRUIT! This further confirms that the grand sin that led to the Fall in the Garden was sexual in nature. In Gen. 3:6 & 12, we see that Eve led Adam into this debauchery by coaxing him into having sex with a member of one of the Pre-Adamic races. Gen. 3:15 then tells us that two literal, biological seedlines are to come forth from Eve. They are the seedline of Satan and the seedline of the woman (through Adam). Verse 15 also tells us that the two seedlines would be in direct conflict with one another and in the end the Satantic seed will be crushed. And there is to be a major 'enmity (hatred)' between the two seedlines. Also, the 'fruit' spoken of in these passages is not literal fruit like an apple or an orange.

The 'fruit' spoken of here is offspring, descendants. Hit Strong's once more. We know that a literal piece of fruit isn't the product of a sexual relationship between a man and a woman. More people are the product of those types of relations. Let's briefly re-cap the Fall in the Garden as spoken of in Gen. chapter three. We now that the 'serpent' was not a literal snake, but rather Satan in human form. We also know that that the grand sin that led to the Fall was not the consumption of literal fruit, but rather improper sexual relations. Eve was 'touched' (engaged in sexual relations with) Satan after he 'beguiled' (morally seduced) her. (Satan probably appeared to Eve as a handsome white god. Ps. 82:6 says the white race is a race of gods.) We also see that Eve led Adam astray as well by enticing him into having sexual relations with a member of one of the Pre-Adamic races. She gave him 'fruit' from the "Tree of KNowledge of Good and Evil' and Adam did 'eat (partake, engage in an activity).'

Finally, Eve was to have two literal seedlines come forth from her womb. One being the 'serpents' (Satan in human form) and the other being hers through Adam. And these two seedlines are to be in direct conflict and have a deep-seated hatred of one another until the end times. Gen. 3:15 alone should point out the utter absurdity of the whole being deceived by a literal snake and eating a piece of fruit led to the Fall in the Garden story. Are we to believe that Eve had sex with a literal snake? Is our enmity and conflict with an army of scaly creatures that move along the ground? Of course not! How ridiculous would that be!? In Gen. 4:1 & 2, we read that Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel. NOw Abel was Adam's son. But Cain was not! Cain is found nowhere in any geneaology in the Bible that traces back to Adam. Read Gen. 5:3-5; 1 Chron. 1:1 and Luke 3:38. In Luke 3:38, it states that the unpolluted descendants of Adam are the sons of God (this of course is a verse tracing the geneaology of Jesus on Mary's (His blood's) side). Why is Cain not mentioned here if he was an unpolluted descendant of Adam? In Gen. 4:8-12, we read about the first major enmity between the two seedlines that was promised by God in Gen. 3:15. Here, Cain murders murders Abel. Now, in Gen. 4:25 and 5:3, we read that Adam and Eve had a son named Seth. The name'Seth' means 'substitute.' Go to Strong's one more time! Seth was the 'substitute' for who? ABEL! Remember, Cain was driven away from Adam and Eve. So why couldn't Seth have been a 'substitute' for Cain if he was Adam and Eve's son as well? After all, he no longer lived with them. The answer is simple. Cain was NOT Adam's son! In 1 John 3:12, we read who Cain's literal, biological father is. It's Satan!

Cain's descendants are mentioned prominently in the New Testament. In Matt. 23:35, Jesus (who was not a Jew but rather of the white Adamic race) tells the Jewish heirarchy that their people are responsible for the deaths of all the righteous that have been murdered on the earth and he begins the list of the righteous with Abel. Who killed Abel? CAIN KILLED ABEL! Remember, the black and yellow races were on the earth long before Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. But Jesus clearly traces the bloodline of the righteous only through the white Adamic race. In Matt. 23:33, Jesus calls the Jews 'serpents.' This is an obvious reference to their literal, biological father as spoken of in Gen. chapter three. He also says that they are a Hell-bound race of people and their fate is sealed at the end of verse 33. In John 8:44, Jesus proclaims Satan as being the Jews literal, biological father. In Matt. 23:15, we see that Jesus states that Judaism (then known as the 'Tradition of the Elders' and later evolving into Babylonain Talmudic Judaism) is a religion of Hell! Finally, in Rev. 2:9 & 3:9, Jesus tells us that there will be impostor Israelites (the Jews) who are, in reality a 'synagogue of Satan.' (The word 'Jew' is a mistranslation here. The correct word is 'Judahite.' And true racial 'Judahites' are Aryan Israelites!) Thank you for reading. I welcome an open dialogue on this and other key Bible issues!

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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? By: Dr. Wesley A. Swift

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THE MESSAGE:- Most people are under the assumption that the Fall of white Adamic man in the Garden of Eden was brought on by Eve listening to the manipulative and deceitful words of a literal talking snake and Eve's eating of a literal piece of fruit that she took from the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.'

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Should Biblical Themes be used for liberation/resistance? 

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Should Biblical Themes be used for liberation/resistance? 

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Renita Weems would want us to believe that we have learned to read the text in a different way, but our hymnody from "I'm Bound for the Promised Land" to "Joshua Fit de Battle" belie that belief. Sermons by Black clergy who invoke us to be like Caleb and Joshua expose us for falling into the trap laid out in Warrior's seminal work. They also call us to account for not taking our own story more seriously, for if the truth were told, we of the African Diaspora have a  story much more akin to that of the Canaanites, Moabites, Edomites, Ammonites, and Philistines. But somehow, we find our own stories so painful that we fantasize that we are of the "winner" group, that we are engrafted into Abraham's seed as Paul told the Gentiles of Galacia (3:6). So too, we have fallen for this rhetoric possibly to escape our own painful story and possibly to conjure up the god of the oppressor to work for us.  -- Randall Bailey, "He Didn't Tell Us the Worst of It" (2005)

Substantial portions of the Bible describe a world where the oppressed are liberated, the last become first, the humbled are exalted, the despised are preferred, those rejected are welcomed, the long- suffering are rewarded, the dispossessed are repossessed, and the arrogant are prostrated. And these are the passages, for oppressed readers, that stand at the center of the biblical message and, thereby, serve as a vital norm for biblical faith. Therein is a portrait of a God that oppressed readers can believe in. In the process of the Bible’s description of an ethic of divine reversal, some of those who will be abased may be African or women, and the overthrow of the proud may seem to come about only through more violence, but these factors pale in the face of the overall promise of liberation. The fact that these factors are suppressed in the reading process says more about the depth of human yearning for freedom than it does about any lack of sophistication on the part of the readers. - Renita Weems, "Reading Her Way Through the Struggle" (1991).

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Search for hymn texts by criteria such as first line, title, author, meter, subject, and lyrics.

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Notes on Building Bibliographies (Linda Whidden)

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Notes on Building Bibliographies (Linda Whidden)

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Slides will be posted here.
- you should have an opinion of your source
- you should know who your author is, and what their expertise is

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Monarchic History (Samuel, Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles)

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Monarchic History (Samuel, Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles)

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Ruth & A Play in Singapore about Foreign Domestic Workers

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Ruth & A Play in Singapore about Foreign Domestic Workers

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23 pages. Ozick is a fiction writer so her writing is kind of 'literary' here--choose this if you like that kind of thing.

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By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down, and there we wept
when we remembered Zion.

2 On the willows[a] there
we hung up our harps.

3 For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

4 How could we sing the Lord’s song
in a foreign land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither!

6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy.

7 Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
Down to its foundations!”

8 O daughter Babylon, you devastator![b]
Happy shall they be who pay you back
what you have done to us!

9 Happy shall they be who take your little ones
and dash them against the rock!

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'Sugar-Daddy' Relationships & HIV in South Africa

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'Sugar-Daddy' Relationships & HIV in South Africa

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Patriarchy, Marriage, and Family Structures in India

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Patriarchy, Marriage, and Family Structures in India

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10 pages

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Stereotypes/Othering of African American Women

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Stereotypes/Othering of African American Women

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Levirate Marriage and Kachin (Myanmar) Marriage Practices

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Levirate Marriage and Kachin (Myanmar) Marriage Practices

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"Showing Watch to the Natives" (c. 1920)

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"Showing Watch to the Natives" (c. 1920)

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most popular devotional image in Britain until early 1900s

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Holman Hunt, "Light of the World" (1854)

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Holman Hunt, "Light of the World" (1854)

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Title: The Healer African Christian London Missionary Society Postcard

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Found on Google from postcardfinder.co.uk

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Commissioned by the National Sunday School Union in Britain

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Harold Copping,  "Jesus and the Children" (1922)

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Harold Copping,  "Jesus and the Children" (1922)

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Title: Jesus and the Children stock image | Look and Learn

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Harold Copping, "Hope of the World" (1915)

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Harold Copping, "Hope of the World" (1915)

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Commissioned and published by the London Missionary
Society and is arguably the most popular picture of Christ
ever produced in Britain

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 “an emblem of the spirit of world conquest for Christ” 

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"Twentieth Century Sunday School Crusaders" (1910)

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"Twentieth Century Sunday School Crusaders" (1910)

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Title: The Twentieth Century Sunday School Crusaders copyright 1910 Ellis | eBay

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Title: Religious painting by Tom Curr - ‘Follow Me’ - A painting of Jesus against a backdrop of Edinburgh

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"There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus."

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While they were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had indeed married a Cushite woman), 2 and they said, “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 3 Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than anyone else on the face of the earth. 4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them came out. 5 Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. 6 And he said, “Hear my words:

When there are prophets among you,

I the Lord make myself known to them in visions;

I speak to them in dreams.

Not so with my servant Moses;

he is faithful in all my house.

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles,

and he beholds the form of the Lord.

“Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” 9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.

10 When the cloud went away from over the tent, Miriam’s skin had become diseased, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw that she was diseased. 11 Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us for a sin that we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be like one stillborn, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb.” 13 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, “O God, please heal her.” 14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp for seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.” 15 So Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days.

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"You [Jews] are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

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"They went to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took with him Peter and James and John and began to be distressed and agitated. 34 And he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake.” 35 And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 He said, “Abba,[i] Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me, yet not what I want but what you want.” "

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"Return to the Good" (Unsettling the Word)

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"Return to the Good" (Unsettling the Word)

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"The Boundaries and Limits of Settler Colonialism" (Unsettling the Word)

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"The Boundaries and Limits of Settler Colonialism" (Unsettling the Word)

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"The 15 Commandments" (Unsettling the Word)

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"The 15 Commandments" (Unsettling the Word)

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"To the Present Day" (Unsettling the Word)

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"To the Present Day" (Unsettling the Word)

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"Prayer of the Sent Away" (Unsettling the Word)

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"Prayer of the Sent Away" (Unsettling the Word)

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"Word of Liberation" (Unsettling the Word)

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"Word of Liberation" (Unsettling the Word)