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Matthew Morgenstern's paper was about his work to produce a new Mandaic lexicon. Much of the talk focused on shortcomings in the Drower-Macuch dictionary, which the current work by Morgenstern seeks to build and improve upon.<\/p>\n

The photo below indicates the contrast between the image produced from the microfilm of a particular text which suffered water damage, and the photo he took with his digital camera, which shows the parts of the text that are completely illegible in the microfilm.<\/p>\n

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And here is the moment when he broke the news that, contrary to Drower's Mandaic dictionary, there isn't a reference to lesbians in a text that she thought there was:<\/p>\n

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In fact, the text means the opposite \u2013 not women embracing, but women turning away from or fighting with one another.<\/p>\n

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