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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Comments I am likely to delete without warning …

August 5, 2009

… include those that begin with, or include, the words “The real question is …”, “[but] the significant issue is…” or a similar phrase, and then try to change the topic of discussion away from the post to something different that the commenter wants to discuss … usually tendentious at best or troll-like at worst.

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Second Temple something: Judaism or Judaisms?

August 5, 2009

I’ve taken this question out of the comments on this post in the hope that others will join in. I confess to being in two minds about it. I have used, and in some contexts will no doubt use again, the plural “Judaisms” myself when looking at the diversity of practice and belief in the [...]

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