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But for Jews, the most important unique personal name of the one God is the name that God himself reveals to Moses at the burning bush: YHVH, which appears more than 6,800 times in the Hebrew Bible.

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Homer’s Iliad has been used by some men to hail the virtues of traditional masculinity in the 21st century. Typically, the famous work of literature serves as a sort of manual of manliness. Scholars ...

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A recent online article in The Times newspaper sought to advise school leavers “how to become a doctor.” Its authors would have been better advising them to consider whether they wanted to become ...