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BIBLICAL ISRAEL, for all its originality, cannot be studied in isolation from the Semitic cultures of the Ancient Near East. Yet these are not the only cultures that shed welcome light on the...


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H. L. Ginsberg, Sabato Morals Professor of Biblical History and Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, collaborated with Harry M. Orlinsky and Ephraim A. Speiser on the new translation of the Torah recently published by the Jewish Publication Society and discussed elsewhere in this issue by Theodor H. Gaster.