{"id":25173,"date":"2014-07-09T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=25173"},"modified":"2014-07-09T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:10:41","slug":"the-tribes-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/the-tribes-of-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tribes of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/isthatinthebible.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/09\/the-twelve-or-so-tribes-of-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul Davidson posted on the topic of the tribes of Israel<\/a>, noticing that there is often evidence of a baker's dozen or so, and sometimes a shorter list than twelve. 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