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The Devil Made Us Do It

Data Over Dogma

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The Unfair Test of Balaam

An inscription from around the eighth century BCE mentions a dude named Balaam of Peor. This itinerant, um, blesser slash cursor probably existed. The stories were written many centuries later and reflecting rhetorical goals that are embedded within much later social circumstances.

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