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Psalm 26: The Kinetic Energy of Protest before God

    The one who asks God to vindicate him in Psalm 26 is committed to "walking" in reliance on God. The alternative the psalmist rejects: that of acquiescing to evil and dishonesty. The prayer is full of controlled kinetic energy. 

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According to the Bible, could you be fat and still be a priest?

    In the ancient Near East and Greek and Roman antiquity, the universal solution to the question of who could present what animal offerings to deity was the following: priests without physical imperfections presented animal offerings without physical imperfections.1 Still, one is hard pressed to find a text which specifies that an obese individual was disbarred from presenting offerings to deity.

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