[Ads-l] Just heard on a reality show:

[Mark Mandel]

On May 13, 2015 1:42 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> No worse than introducing one's spouse as "my first husband" or "my
first wife" as the case may be...

Which is the analogy I use to (try to) explain to evangelists why I don't
call the Tanakh, aka Hebrew Bible, the "Old Testament".

Mark

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