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God
Characterizing God is a hefty, controversial business, but any analysis of the Bible has to come to terms with it: God is totally epic. For crying out loud, the guy is more famous than Moses, the B...
The Israelites
The Israelites are a fussy bunch. On the one hand, these righteous people "speak the truth," "do not slander," "stand by their oath even to their hurt," and "do not take bribes" (15:2-5). On the ot...
The Enemies
Remember that book of poetry that was written about the New York vs. New Jersey coolness dispute? No? Oh, right, because no one would ever touch that with a ten-foot pole. Not so in the ancient wor...