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Pages: 311
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-06 - Publisher: Yale University Press
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Pages: 642
Pages: 642
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-04 - Publisher: Penguin
A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collectio
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-06 - Publisher: Routledge
Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring th
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Pages: 445
Pages: 445
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This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek