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Keeping your Jesus and Judas straight
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Keeping your Jesus and Judas straight

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Mitch Fraas Sarah Werner

Co-written by Sarah Werner and Mitch Fraas One might think that when printing the New Testament, one would want to avoid at all costs mixing up Jesus and Judas. However, this month’s crocodile shows that such mistakes did happen: the typo…

Interleaving history: an illustrated Book of Common Prayer
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Interleaving history: an illustrated Book of Common Prayer

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Whitney Anne Trettien

A guest post by Whitney Anne Trettien In Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, Partridge and his friends go to see a play. As they watch a man light the upper candles of the playhouse, the predictably inane Partridge cries out,…