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# Peter Manseau

(1974)   Writer

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Peter Manseau is a writer.

## Quick Facts About Peter Manseau

Born November 15, 1974

Profession Writer

## About Peter Manseau

American author... \| Peter Manseau is an American writer, religion scholar and museum curator. He is Lilly Endowment Curator of American Religious History at the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian.

##  Quotes by Peter Manseau

> [“It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-manseau/it-s-perhaps-significant-that-god-declares-his-completed-creation/)

[Peter Manseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-manseau/)

[Creation Good](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation-good-417787/)

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> [“THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus’s foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-manseau/that-no-one-knows-what-happened-to-jesus-s-foreskin-is-particularly/)

[Peter Manseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-manseau/)

[Foreskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/foreskin-66320/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/peter-manseau-54386_foreskin_that-no-one-knows-what-happened-to-jesus_2698405.jpg)

> [“The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-manseau/the-goyim-are-a-curious-people-malpesh-once-said-to-me-before-he-had/)

[Peter Manseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-manseau/)

[Curiosity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/curiosity/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/peter-manseau-54386_curiosity_the-goyim-are-a-curious-people-malpesh-o_2897339.jpg)

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