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amanuensis

though Twain left its typing to an amanuensis.

—p.621 A (Short) History (509) by Joshua Cohen
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Manichaeism

BUT JESUS WAS NOT the only Christ. Manichaeism teaches that the world is divisible into spiritual light and material darkness, making it fairly evident which to reject

—p.550 A (Short) History (509) by Joshua Cohen
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divagation

At the time—one interpretation might divagate—humanity had been nomadic, tribal, hunter-gatherers following the seasonal animal migrations.

—p.526 A (Short) History (509) by Joshua Cohen
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oneiric

Rabbinic opinion differs as to how to interpret the interpretation of a dream that’s presented in a dream, but it’s significant that even the Rebbe’s oneiric interlocutors seem to doubt the endeavor

—p.502 Dream Translations from the Early Hasidic (501) by Joshua Cohen
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lacuna

To Laor, these reductions and lacunae imply a schizophrenia, a desperate reinforcement of older, weaker Jewishness as a stereotype of both what to venerate and never to be

—p.472 Lines of Occupation (on Yitzhak Laor) (461) by Joshua Cohen
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