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Jumping Jacobs – More deep Hebrew insights from Dune

/ Cinema, Arabic, Etymology, Hebrew, Literature / 6 minutes of reading

Working on doing research for the post ‘Buried in the Sand – Hebrew as a Language of Desert People’ made me realize I had some huge misconceptions about two of the main pillar terms in the world of Dune and its mythology, and about the word ‘jump’ in Hebrew. One of the terms – Kwisatz […]

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Buried in the Sand – Hebrew as a language of desert people (Dune afterthoughts)

/ Cinema, Etymology, Hebrew, Religion / 12 minutes of reading

I have watched Dune – Part 1 twice already. The first time was on a regular screen and second time on IMAX. I may have inadvertently given a really good scare to the people sitting next to me in the cinema the second time. A boy and his mother were talking nonstop, so about halfway

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