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The wolves speak across the series to each other, early and late, ghosts of a continent’s past.
Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser
Our personal winters are so often accompanied by insomnia: perhaps we’re drawn towards that unique space of intimacy and contemplation, darkness and silence, without really knowing what we’re seeking. Perhaps, after all, we are being urged towards our own comfort.
If you were an ordinary murderer or robber, you were not likely to be crucified. The use of the word robbers for those crucified with Jesus is a translation mistake. The Greek word used in Mark is the same word used by Josephus for Jewish resistance fighters; it is a pejorative term, with connotations like the modern terrorist.
The Meaning of Jesus
Marcus J. Borg, N. T. Wright
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