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|    Oh so rich & successful JTEM to reader    |
|    Re: Abraham, was "Ravens or Arabs"    |
|    05 Sep 18 19:57:12    |
      From: jtem01@gmail.com               reader wrote:              > "In accord with patriarchal traditions, cylinder seals from Middle Bronze       > Age Mesopotamia showed riders seated upon camels."^[76]^[77]"              Laugh!              This is an unsubstantiated claim that originates in       a RELIGIOUS book titled "LIVING ON THE EDGE challenges       of faith."              Not that it matters because, non-trolls know that       "Mesopotamia" isn't so much a formal political       division as an area, one that encompasses even parts       of Saudi Arabia... Kuwait... regions associated with       camels well before the Levant. And as the issue here       is the Levant EXCLUSIVELY you'd have to be pig       ignorant to point to "Mesopotamia"              Just saying.                                                 -- --              http://jtem.tumblr.com/post/177766404498              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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