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Jeff Carter shared the above photo with me on Facebook. He asked me if I had seen this on my visits to Israel, and wrote: \u201cAt the Yardenit baptismal site on the Jordan River, Mark 1: 9 \u2013 11 is displayed in various languages \u2013 including Jawa\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I wonder what other science fiction languages are represented around Israel \u2013 or languages that can be mistaken for science fictional ones.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Carter shared the above photo with me on Facebook. He asked me if I had seen this on my visits to Israel, and wrote: \u201cAt the Yardenit baptismal site on the Jordan River, Mark 1: 9 \u2013 11 is displayed in various languages \u2013 including Jawa\u2026\u201d I wonder what other science fiction languages are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":22089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42,91],"tags":[1140,4100,5585,6346,11822,12283],"class_list":["post-22088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-humor","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-bible","tag-gospel-of-mark","tag-jawa","tag-languages","tag-star-wars","tag-tatooine"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Bible in Indigenous Languages of Tatooine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jeff Carter shared the above photo with me on Facebook. 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