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Have you read the Book of Daniel? The full Septuagint version? Bel & the Dragon, chapter 14? The Vindication of Susannah?

Pretty much half of the Tanakh’s narratives are focused on that theme.

“He who sits in the heavens laughs.”

“What is this baaaa-ing I hear...?” — Amalekite property and population not thoroughly destroyed

“Do you do well...?” — Yahweh to Job, to Jonah, to Moses, et. al.

The priests of Ba’al vs. Elijah at Mt. Carmel

“That man is you!” — Samuel to David, regarding his proto-Machiavelli seduction and murder maneuvers

“Let us [Elohim] go down [to Earth] and see what men are doing now.” Genesis 11

The idolatry of Jamnia — actually that one turned out OK




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