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| | | In lugnet.announce.moc, Brendan Powell Smith wrote: snip (...) Excellent beheadings! I have a quibble with "Gideon and His Sons". The (URL) ephod> was a priestly garment - "a 'skirt' with two shoulder straps, to which the golden breastplate was (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: The Brick Testament: Gideon! —Brendan Powell Smith
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| | | | (...) Thanks. That's always a nice compliment to hear. :) (...) When I first read this story about Gideon setting up an "ephod" at Ophrah which all the Israelites "prostituted themselves" to, I was pretty confused about just what was going on. I (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: The Brick Testament: Gideon! —Marc Nelson Jr.
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| | | | (...) Wow! Thank you for the detailed reply - I never thought I'd be getting an education in Hebrew etymology on LUGNET. The most interesting theory was from the (URL) Jewish Encyclopedia> link - that the ephod started out as a garment for an an (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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