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\u201cLook, up in the sky! Is it a bird?\u201d \u201cYup.\u201d Jim West has posted the latest Biblical studies carnival, and the first thing you see might indeed be a bird. But that is just because this month\u2019s post has a special emphasis on Twitter. Click through to read Jim\u2019s round up of posts, laced with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[1140,1151,1152,1155,1158,1159,1160,1161,5736,11470,13035],"class_list":["post-9183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-biblical-studies-carnival-bible","category-biblioblogging-bible","tag-bible","tag-biblical-studies","tag-biblical-studies-carnival","tag-biblioblog","tag-bibliobloggers","tag-biblioblogging-bible","tag-biblioblogosphere","tag-biblioblogs","tag-jim-west","tag-snarcasm","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"\n
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