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Office Mouse Strikes Again, Kills Bedouin Family

Earlier this month, an evil mouse ate the face off of my Moses action

figure. Sadly, the mouse's killing spree has continued. This is a

model of a Bedouin tent that I got in Jordan back in the late 90's.

It used to have a nice Bedouin couple living in it. They were happy,

sitting there in the tent, perpetually drinking their tea. Now they're

gone without a trace. There are mouse teeth marks everywhere, and I

think I've found the Bedouin man's moustache and kafilla mixed in with

mouse feces on the floor. I was fond of that tent and the Bedouin

family. I did my dissertation on ancient tents, and then published a

revised version with Brill Academic under the long title: To Your

Tents, O Israel!: The Terminology, Function, Form, and Symbolism of

Tents in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. It's not written

for a general audience, though it got good reviews. It's currently

listed as #3,179,731 in the Amazon.com sales rank. As part of the

research I spent a great deal of time with real Bedouin in the south

of Jordan, and this tent was a kitchy way for me to remember those

times. The mouse is also chewing on my books.

So now my main goal in life is to bring this murderous mouse to

judgement. You can see in the above picture that on the shelf in the

background (upper right) that I have two types of mouse traps, the old

fashioned kind with a tasty cheese bait, and then the new sticky

surface kind, with some more cheese in the middle. I'm hoping he

chooses the sticky surface kind, and then I will enjoy taunting him

with my many other Bible and ancient Near East action figures who