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Aliens in the Bible - True Translations Ep 2 Elyon - Paul Wallis & Mauro Biglino. For hundreds and
thousands of years people around the world have turned to the Bible for information about God. Two
scholars Mauro Biglino and Paul Wallis argue for a radically different interpretation ...
The information in this video is key to understanding the true history of humanity. In this episode
"Elyon" Mauro Biglino and Paul Wallis drill down into the ancient text of the bible and reveal their
findings in this comprehensive masterclass of information.
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for hundreds and thousands of years people around the world have turned to the bible for information
about god
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two scholars maro billino and paul wallace argue for a radically different
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words in these ancient texts they find another quite different story emerges
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one with enormous implications for our understanding of the human race and our place in the universe
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for more than two millennia readers have interpreted the ancient texts of the bible as stories of god a
seamless
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narrative in which god creates the heavens and the earth botanical and animal life and eventually the
human
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race however a number of anomalies in the texts along with intriguing questions of
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over the last decade paul's work has probed the world's mythologies and ancestral narratives for the
insights
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they hold on our origins as a species and our potential as human beings
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an archdeacon in the anglican church in australia paul's work in church ministry has
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included training pastors in the interpretation of biblical texts his work in biblical translation and
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interpretation has revealed a forgotten layer of ancient story with far-reaching implications for our
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and highly regarded scholar of ancient hebrew for many years he worked for rome's saint paul press as a
bible
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translator providing with great precision the literal meaning of hebrew words for vatican-approved
interlinear
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bibles it is an exacting discipline the scholar must be rigorous in avoiding any kind of
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interpretation of the word and give only the literal etymological meaning of each word part
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morrow's finding set him at odds with the conventional expectations of the catholic world and propelled
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the international stage where his work has opened up a world of cultural memory recorded in the bible
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yet hidden from the public for centuries by mistaken translation and the dogmas of the church
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together morrow and paul show that the root meanings of a series of key words in the bible reveal an
earlier layer of
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information very different to the story of god associated with the bible
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hidden plain sight in the pages of genesis is an even more ancient narrative one which reframes the
whole
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hello everyone we are on the second video about the
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small suggestions paul and i are giving to read the bible in the clearest and
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that have been going on for a very long time without ever reaching a shared
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and therefore the grammatical rules are an elaboration of the modern grammarians
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which on the other end basically did not pay attention to those
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instead we must remember that the root elohim derives from the root air
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alion is given the meaning of the agest whenever you find the agust or the
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the most tight in the bible in hebrew there is actually this term here alion
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now very ike is an absolute superlative
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one of the greatest jewish executes professor emmanuel tov in his critical
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different individuals
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should be applied to elion since this is the one who stands above
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so if there is a term that deserves this type of treatment
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above the others but he is not very like he is simply one who commands
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and always this is another dictionary where he talks about the origins the
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evolution of the things of the every language and he clearly says that the root of
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the first indicates an i that is the one who observes the one who
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keeps an eye on everything and the one who governs others with the
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shepherd's stuff
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also plato in his dialogue crysia tells that the gods after
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dividing the peoples the territories ruled their peoples like shepherds
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who is above but who is not very high but who is simply above others
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when it is said that eleon divided the peoples and defined the boundaries of the
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that he divided them on the basis of the number of the children of the elohim
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elion is also used in the book of joshua where it is even used to indicate the
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here we have the term eleon and as you can see this term eleon is clearly indicated
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let's move on to the other example of eleon and let's go to the book of joshua
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precisely this while eleon as you can see is again indicated as an absolute
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with that absolute superlative which is used to indicate the most high
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here we are in execute 417 where we even see a third type of use of
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the term eleon meanwhile as you can see in the usual square that appears
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because here we are talking about a construction a building and it is said
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that from the lower part we rise above the upper part and this is precisely the meaning of
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and ear has the article so as for the other two examples
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here we are back to a very concrete use we are talking about an upper floor of a
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doesn't have the plural ending use it in this way so there is no need
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you will find yourself reading an extremely clear bible without ever having to discuss
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thank you maru elion really is a fascinating word as maro said is one of the words that we
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conventionally translate as god in the bible now when i say the word god
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the source of the cosmos and everything in it that in which we all live and move
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and have our being but that is not the meaning of the word eleon as we've already seen
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but i want to go back to the formation of the hebrew canon what christians call
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the old testament because there's a very broad scholarly consensus that the
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hebrew scriptures took their current form sometime in the 6th century bce
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and that what happened was a scissors and paste redaction the library of
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scrolls and books that form the hebrew canon were reworked edited
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absolutely endorse what maro said when he says that the final redaction of
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exposition of the texts but was done for ideological reasons to teach monotheism
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and to endorse the jerusalem temple and disendorse all the other temples
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that existed and to endorse the high priestly family that ran
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and then the levitical priesthood and then the authority of the high priestly family
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and the authority of the jerusalem temple that's really the message of that final redaction in an attempt
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so if you follow the drama of the stories of the hebrew canon you
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arrive at the 7th century bce and the boy king josiah sets about reforming
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judaism and sets about getting rid of all the vestiges of polytheism within jewish
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practice so they destroy the high places and the standing stones they get rid of the
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and let me just define what that means it's not going to be polytheistic they're not going to worship
yahweh and
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asherah they're not going to have many gods it's not going to be henotheistic where
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they acknowledge other gods but choose to worship this one and so the memory of
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and i don't want to downplay the importance of that message i think the idea that we shouldn't be
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but in the process they obscured the information that was carried by the
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change because what josiah did in jewish practice cleaning it up from polytheism getting
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rid of hennetheism turning into monotheism so the sixth century redactors tried to
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henotheism edit all those books so that it would appear that from start to finish the
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except of course within those stories you've got these other entities washing around in the text and
elian is one of
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higher than the others now what does that mean higher than the
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others what does it mean higher than the others does it mean taller
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well before we rush on to the conclusion let me point out that this higher in
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space concept exists all around the world when talking about our ancestors cosmology if you go
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to the edo narrative from nigeria and southern benin you will hear of
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the almighty one above the waters so we're thinking about an entity that's up
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there in the sky looking down on the waters well that's there of course in genesis
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as well where we have the flooded waters and then the ruach arrives and hovers
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over the flooded waters it's there in the miso american story from out of the pope
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the mayan tradition that speaks about the progenitors arriving in the darkness
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hovering over the waters if you go to the philippines you'll hear of the
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epic narrative from out of nigeria of abbasi and a thai these advanced beings
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who hover in the sky above the planet so these were beings that had
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and i wonder if at that point we conflated the ideas of being high and
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so osana bawa is the almighty one above the waters in the sumerian stories we
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have the descent of the sky people from on high who then govern over us
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there might be a connection between those concepts and it's interesting what mata was
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in which that seniority has a meaning so the picture that emerges is early on
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sense of the pictogram makes sense of the root meanings of the word
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believe are the source narratives but the biblical narratives you have
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enki is the commander of this region of earth so this notion that the advanced
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of the powerful ones now so far i just talked about meanings root meanings
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pictographic meanings but this is actually how the word eleon functions in the drama of the texts
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i call to god the most high so that's how it's translated i call to
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translation of the hebrew scriptures used by those who wrote for jesus it uses this greek word
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i call to god the most high but realizing that we're looking at
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elian let's read it in the hebrew text according to that root meaning we were just discussing i call to the
powerful
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elohim the most powerful of the elohim and so this picture of what i would call
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a sky council the concept that recurs in ancestral narratives all around the world emerges there it is in
the bible
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this sky council of powerful ones who are presided over by a president
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they remember that the powerful ones were their rock and that the powerful one the most
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now psalm 78 verse 35 some people would say ah this is a classic couplet
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where in hebrew poetry you will say something twice you say it once
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one way and then say it again a slightly different way just to
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finesse the concept or hammer it home and some people would say that's what's happening here that
the text says and
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that the powerful one the most senior was their redeemer a possibly translate
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in the hebrew scriptures that it morphs from being a simple plural to being a group noun to
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sometimes being used as a name or as a singular well we see it elsewhere in the psalms
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as a plural as we just did in psalm 57 to elian the powerful one the most
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senior of the elohim the powerful ones so if it's plural in psalm 57 perhaps
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it's plural in psalm 78 let's read it that way and they remembered that the powerful
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ones were their rock and that the powerful one the most
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el elyon as the commander of the elohim a sky council of powerful beings over
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being parceled out among the elohim now if you go to the septuagint that's
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that the nations were parceled out among the angelon seiu among the agents of god
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but we note that their is actually a rendition of the hebrew elohim the agents of elohim so we've got the
bene
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elohim in the quran text and we've got the agents of elohim in
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and then elian is going to parcel out the lands the people that belong to those lands to the various
elohim
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and that is how the drama of the hebrew scriptures plays out
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that you have human society divided into human colonies each with their own
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lands and people and yahweh is the elohim
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who gets the people of israel so what's interesting about that is that we have a picture of humanity
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and yahweh is down here one of the junior powerful ones presided over
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god elian isn't god either he's one of the powerful ones the most senior
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elsewhere in the hebrew canon we see the sky council in operation we see it in 1
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kings 22 fermenting war we see it at the beginning of the book of job where two
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of the powerful ones are toying with a human being much like a boy with a magnifying glass might toy
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it's not a pretty picture but the picture is coherent that we've
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got a body of powerful beings that might be quite diverse elian presides over it
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yahweh is on that council and that really is the stable and coherent picture of the human condition that
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plays out all the way through the hebrew canon and so what we've seen this time around
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is that it sets us up to go back to this junior level of elohim and to this particular character of yahweh
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out where yahweh fits in the picture because for a long time
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you cannot make that equation but that's for next time [Music]
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the final edit of the old testament of the bible the hebrew canon included the layering of some beautiful
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theology over the top of ancient texts [Music] unfortunately mistranslating traumatic
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ancestral memories as if there were encounters with god is a choice with far-reaching consequences
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belief in a violent xenophobic hierarchical god has been used through the ages to justify violent wars
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manner of abuses however the fidelity which the ancient manuscripts have been curated in the
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hebrew canon by countless generations of priests and scribes means that in our generation we can now
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fascinating artifacts of our pre-history and ask how differently they might be translated
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to find out more about paul wallace and mara bellino along with links to their published works
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