Recap

Tamar was not a whore;  Judah did not want to fully execute the contract he made with her.  She found a way to complete it wihout creating a situation where his youngest son would have to choose between disinheriting himself or dying;

The pronunciation of the Name was never “lost” or “forgotten.”  It is not pronounceable.

The masculinity of the Name is a quirk of the fact that yod is the only prefix that is unique to the third person future.  And the only third person future to use that prefix is masculine, both singular and plural.

Lev 18:22 does not prohibit homosexuality.

Lev 20:13 does not prohibit homosexuality.

Romans does not prohibit homosexuality,

1 Corinthians does not prohibit homosexuality.

1 Timothy does not prohibit homosexuality.

Gen 19 does not prohibit homosexuality.

Judges 19 is a quick romp through the patriarchal narratives as they might have ended had they not contained Divine intervention.

Ruth contains a viable contract-for-life executed between two women.

1 and 2 Samuel contain a viable contract-for-life executed between two men.

1 and 2 Samuel contain mirroring marital relations:  the relationship between Jonathan/David mirrors the same contractual relationship between Michal/David.

The destruction of the Temple was not an anti-semitic act, but an act of Greco-Roman realpolitik.

The disarming of the Judean people as the result of their success in the war against Cleopatra may have been.

Paul’s conversion was not a radical departure from normative Judean praxis to belief in a relatively unknown philosopher/wonder-worker.

Paul’s conversion was not a conversion from normative Judean praxis at all.

Paul was sending Temple tax money from his communities to Jerusalem.

Paul was citing Hebrew text, and constructing his own transation of it into Hebrew to let his non-Judean communities know they would be welcomed as at the Temple in Jerusalem.

Differences in cultural constructs caused misunderstandings in reception of text:  Navi and prophetes do not mean the same thing.

The book of Joshua, in Greek, is the book of Jesus in the LXX.

Jesus the Christ is not a name but a sentence that resulted from transliteration rather than translation.

Early Christians recognized that other divinities had come down, impregnated human females and produced semi-Divine offspring. 

Hilde of Bingen was neither a proto-Protestant, nor a proto-feminist.

I may have left a few out.  There will be an exam.

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