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I brought along my Bible Odyssey<\/a> \u201cI Love Josephus<\/a>\u201d t-shirt on my trip to the Holy Land, thinking it would be perfect to wear to Masada (and of course also to Qumran, as seen in the photo above). I was pleased that several people noticed the shirt and were struck by it enough to mention it. Well done, Bible Odyssey! The point of the shirt was undoubtedly precisely to generate conversations ones that promote not just this specific SBL endeavor, but Biblical scholarship more generally. It worked, even if the conversations today were short. Their brevity probably had more to do with the fact that the temperature at the Dead Sea<\/a> today exceeded 50\u00b0 Celsius!<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite conversation-starting t-shirt?<\/p>\n

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