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menlove · 10 months

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feeling like a real "well, actually-" bitch reading articles for my capstone that have only done surface digging into the ugaritic texts ahdhsjhs they make so many mistakes and parrot some common misconceptions and I'm sitting here like

#religious studies rambles #this man is calling yamm a sea serpent and saying baal isn't the son of el and I'm like aaaaahhHHHH #it looks like he just read the origins of biblical monotheism (good text) and that's it #and I'm like that's a great book for this but. it's a cursory glance.#you gotta read what the translators say bc they can offer insight into what's going on and not Just their interpretation

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