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which psalm is yours ? if u don’t mind me asking

thirty nine

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I wish heaven for you

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Can we still respectfully hit on you

yes

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fragment of utukki limnûti, an invocation for hauntings

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i stay late to see him. he is not sober and he never is. his hair is the length i like. he smiles, leaning into the entrance, and sees me. i rise and offer to hold something for him, and he refuses. i say he looks handsome, in large part i think he’ll forget it. he says that he’s mine. my hand is on his forearm. and then it’s not, and he’s left to fall himself home. the first flirtations are like this

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you need to memorize a psalm. you need to have one to recite on notice. right now, pick one

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Hanna Konola

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www.Le-Cime.com

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another matriarch of the pentateuch passes. her spouse tells the hittites that he needs land for her resting place. he needs some stone to lay her flesh, anointed in oil and spice. after early rotting, she is moved into a vessel or shroud holding all of her remains. the resting space is not shut up after the movement into the vessel or shroud, though. it is never shut up. it is kept open for her loved ones to feed her, visit her, receive her from the nether. veneration of her and her nephesh falls into the rites of kispū, in the ancient near east. here, remains are immured near their loved ones—most often in homes, under floorboards in kitchens. this is so that the person lost might still serve as part of the family, might still receive that food, that veneration, that love

"sarah lived one hundred and twenty seven years" —gen 23:1

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loving thy neighbor and loving thy enemy falls into the same thing—‘may they know heaven.’ may they know heaven—not my notion of heaven, though. not any notion of heaven save one that is holy, revenging, righteous, ethical, near, familiar, safe. may their hurt and their hate know this heaven

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references for reading and studying the hebrew bible (named the old testament for some, the tanakh for others)—

biblegateway makes available most translations. ethical, responsible versions used in academia include the nrsvue (here with commentary) and the jps (here, on sefaria, with hebrew notations). software like accordance is helpful for those familiar with languages.

on languages—here is more on learning biblical hebrew. here are my recs on hittite, sumerian, akkadian (huehnergard, caplice), ugaritic, and aramaic.

holding the narrative alongside introductory material is meaningful—here is a list of many, and here is the book assigned in most syllabi. here is yale’s free, open lectures

finally, oxford offers entries on heuristics and methods that might help move religious study further in meaning. here are recs for my method

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how does one relate with their natality? —elby

ancestor veneration, knowing the rule of the father and the feel of the mother, running your hands on familiar sites, sharing meals, home altars and fruit offerings, letting the sun hit your face

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how do i accept forgiveness from God when i know other people won't forgive me?

he is not other people and he forgave you prior to you needing it

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he is not your first, though he feels like it. the first has a feeling. he is not your first, though he’s as handsome. raising prophets has a feeling, like a pull on the nape of your neck. in or near the year that samaria falls there is the pull of him, and he is the kind of last that feels like the first

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"the rich fool," james b. janknegt

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Fave fiction book?

our share of night or beloved. i only read horror

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i yearn for human validation. as much as i hate myself for it, i can't deny the truth. is there a prophet like this? a prophet i can be "assigned" with this trait? either way have a great day. your posts are so dear to me :)

jeremiah has this yearning. it is rarely met for him though