The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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ISBN/ISSN

9789004537798

Collation

200 hlm; ill., lamp.,

Series Title

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 143

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