The Salem Orientalist Society

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Simdons Ryder and I are having a hard time with this.

Get out your church-issued Old Testament Student manuals (Genesis - 2nd Samuel; for what it's worth [25 cents, in fact] mine was purchased at DI and once belonged to Carol and Gerald Sorenson - anybody know them? I'd try to look them up, but I'm afraid I'd find out that they're dead) and turn to page 247. Under the heading "Some of the more well-known false gods of the Old Testament," you will find the following excerpt about Dagon:

Now, check out the picture a little later on, on page 270:


Now I just don't know what to believe.
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