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Today I will be joining more than 10,000 other religion and Biblical studies scholars in Baltimore, Maryland for the joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion<\/a> and the Society of Biblical Literature<\/a>. I will try to blog about the conference as possible.<\/p>\n

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