I had a funny exchange on Twitter, hinting at having a new interpretation of the story about the woman accused of committing adultery found in John 8 in many manuscripts (as I did here when my\u00a0Biblical Archaeology Review<\/em> article<\/a> related to this part of the book came out). This was in response to what I thought was a brilliantly clever tweet (even though I don\u2019t think the expression existed in Jesus\u2019 time) by Traci Rhoades<\/a>. She said:<\/p>\n Remember when Jesus wrote something in the dirt when the people were going to stone the woman caught in adultery.<\/p>\n What if he wrote: beware of drawing lines in the sand?<\/p>\n \u2014 Traci Rhoades (@tracesoffaith) April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n