'[A] word which, if spelled backwards and with the change of five of its letters, becomes an unknown Sumerian word resembling a word which, if you change another five letters, means in Hebrew a cultic prostitute.'🔥🔥🔥

Possibly the best—or at least the funniest—negative scholarly review ever written. Strugnell said he wanted to entitle it ‘Fungus Dei, Miserere Nobis’, but the editor wouldn’t have it.

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