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Esther — Introduction

…Where the debates are The HISTORICITY, on which positions range widely: the book's Persian detail is impressively accurate, but…

Mister Translation

2 Kings — Introduction

…Genre HISTORICAL NARRATIVE with a thesis, and two registers that sit oddly together: the PROPHET STORIES of the Elijah-Elisha…

Eight Miles West

The Tree Thief of Breuckelen

…Fruit trees, the record is careful to say — "not wild trees but fruit trees" [1]. How many, he never said…

Mister Translation

2 Samuel — Introduction

…A national epic that records its hero's worst crime in detail, names the victim, and lets a prophet say…

Mister Translation

1 Kings — Introduction

…The historicity of SOLOMON's empire, where the biblical description of a wealthy imperial state and the archaeological record of…

Eight Miles West

The Voorlezer's Hand

Part I · TWO HOMELANDS, TWO FLAGS · Chapter 6 The Voorlezer's Hand Staten Island · 28 September 1698 In the record…

Eight Miles West

Copied for Frank K. Swain

…Swain Fonthill, Doylestown · The Hague · Denver · 1896–1998 In the record Frank King Swain (1876–1954) · Anne Price Raike (d…

Eight Miles West

The Name Came From Her

Part I · TWO HOMELANDS, TWO FLAGS · Chapter 4 The Name Came From Her Manhattan · 9 September 1640 In the record…

Eight Miles West

Should Not Have Come Off Alive

…He was also, in the words of the Brooklyn historian who went through the records two centuries later, "rather fractious…

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