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Religion and nationality in Antiquity: the worship of Yahweh and ancient Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Steven Grosby
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There is a particularly interesting, important, and, I think, generally unacknowledged cleavage within the study of the Geist, cultural history, Geisteswissenschaften, the human sciences, sociology or whatever term you employ. This deserves our consideraion.

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , November 1991 , pp. 229 - 265
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1991

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