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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-05-08  |  1.5 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  36 seconds
Transcription: In ancient Africa, tribes would sometimes fight their battles single combat style. Great armies lined up across from each other waving their weapons menacingly and hurling insults back and forth. When tribal hatred reached a kind of critical mass, two warriors, only two, stepped forward to fight on behalf of all the rest. Whoever drew first blood would prove the gods were on his side and his opponent's army would surrender. Something like single combat warfare took place at a moment of deep crisis in Israel. As usual, the prophet Elijah was on center stage.