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Originally Posted By: CandyOriginally Posted By: zmjezhd
....I wonder why the term fig-leaf edition was used instead of bowdlerized edition.
expurgate is another word I could have used, but I liked the 'fig leaf' image, as in 'cover up they nakedness' in the garden of Eden and how 'the statue of David' was given a fig leaf, so as to not offend 'our senses'.
Does anyone consider the offense to Jews by showing David as being uncircumcised?
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