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“We shall work not on the macrocosmic scale of the literary forms, but on the microcosmic scale of the lexical forms.”

“Probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that:”

“This book is therefore consecrated to the deeper and fuller study of that linguistic world in which the Hebrew Bible is set.”

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— Alfred Russel Wallace

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— Mary L. Trump

Politics1965

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"At the end of the day, when you look back, no matter what you are, who you are and what you do, you'll always go back to the basics or the undeniable. History is the best judge; when your epitaph is w…"

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Politics1969

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"The unanimous and entirely coherent testimony that the wars in Hindustan were religious wars of Muslims against Kafirs is a different matter altogether: denying this testimony is not a matter of small…"

— Koenraad Elst

Indology1959

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