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The above cartoon comes from Adam4d<\/a>. I would have liked to see the NRSV with apocrypha on there, with a tweed jacket with elbow pads and professorial-looking spectacles\u2026<\/p>\n

Which other translations could be added, and how would you depict and describe them?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"