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But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale--even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them.

As Chow sees it, Elman's focus upon "evidential scholarship" slights the ethical concerns of the thinkers they both treat; far from being secular iconoclasts, such thinkers were more likely to be conservative ideological "purists" who wished to reclaim an "original" Confucianism which has been subverted by clumsy medieval exegetists.

The scrawl 'you looser' was thought by graffito exegetists to refer to a much-publicized affair.