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Pages: 262
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Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Though considered one of the most important informants about Judaism in the first century CE, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's testimony is often overloo
Language: en
Pages: 205
Pages: 205
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-31 - Publisher: Lutterworth Press
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Language: en
Pages: 202
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