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The English Patient

The movie ‘The English Patient’ has long been one of my favourites. It has one scene relating the story of Candaules and Gyges. The Ring of Gyges features in Plato’s Republic as does his famous allegory of the Cave. It…

Hunchbacks and cheese

I’m still setting up this blog site and getting used to things. So this 2nd post is a short note about the word for cheese in 2 Samuel 17:29 and the ‘rugged’ (NIV) or ‘many-peaked’ (ESV) mountains of Psalm 68:15.…