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Robert Wright on Osiris, Jesus, Dives, and Lazarus
Robert Wright on the Egyptian god Osiris and the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke: Osiris bears a certain resemblance to Jesus as Christians would later come to conceive him; Osiris inhabited the afterworld and judged the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, dives and lazarus, Egypt, Egyptian gods, gospel of Luke, Jesus, lazarus, Luke, osiris, poor, rich
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Destitute Ghetto Inhabitant in Winter, circa 1940
Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive
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Tagged 1940, ghetto, God, Holocaust, poland, poor, poverty, winter
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A Farmer’s Wife and the Powerful Body of a Young Miller: Sexploitation of the Poor in a Marquis de Sade Short Story
At one level, the Marquis de Sade’s short story, “The Lady of the Manor of Longeville, or a Woman’s Revenge,” is a feminist tale, for it tells the story of a woman who outwits her husband by discovering and exposing his adulterous affair, … Continue reading
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“Little Reminder”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
When your mother’s belly rose, I did not leave you unmoored, but bound and docked you by umbilical cord. And when the floodgates opened, and you washed forth like a turtle, held aloft and helpless in a … Continue reading
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