How to Organize a Scroll

In ancient israelite culture, there was a set of strategies for how to organize a scroll am through patterns of repetition. The design itself is part of the strategy, not only to memorize, but to make sense. Often like the key clue for the meaning of a whole section is buried in the middle sentence of the middle paragraph. And then once you have it, you're actually meant to go re read the whole thing all over again. Feels to me a little bit like a christopher nolan movie. I think we often encounter the bibles as a glitch, but it's actually a feature designed to bring us in to multiple re readings and to become more dependent on our

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