Two Ways to Live without an Inheritance
Interpreting Paul’s numerical ‘mistake’ in 1 Corinthians 10:8, with a coda on reading like a child.
ab initio ad finem
Thinking long thoughts through. Philosophical investigations on being human, from its beginning to its end, with special attention to those limits.
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