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frontispiece: The widow Rizpah hangs out with several members of her family She
is
praised in the Bible for her loyalty to the rotting corpses of her sons
using a
,
fend off hungry carrion birds for weeks on end. Rizpah' s innocent boys
stick to
were crucified
God
appease
to
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