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Humanities academic living on a blue island in a red state. Interests include cannabis, gaming, fuck cars, public transport, antifascism, anticapitalism, and other unAmerican activities.
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I don’t know where the Bible’s numbering in particular comes from, but it’s common in ancient texts. It helped with navigating long works before the printing press gave us exact pagination.
I thought that seemed fishy . . .
About half of the people where I live drive these huge pickup trucks, and I’ve never seen one hauling anything.
Love the name. I have an all-white one named Cream Cheese.
On the contrary, one of the fediverse’s greatest strengths is that it encourages gatekeeping.
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That’s probably the assumption they’re working with, because historians do it all the time. Document survival for the pre-modern period is so poor that it doesn’t take very many examples to demonstrate (for all intents and purposes) that something was widespread.