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    <title>Society, the sacred, and scripture in ancient Judaism</title>
    <subTitle>a sociology of knowledge</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Lightstone, Jack N.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Wilfrid Laurier University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1988</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiii, 126 p. ;  23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface; Transliterations; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: The "Restoration" Community and the "Torah of Moses"; Chapter Three: Diaspora, Sources of the Sacred, and Torah as Holy Relic; Chapter Four: Earliest Rabbinic Circles, Mishnah, and Scripture as Closed System; Chapter Five: Talmudic Rabbinism, Midrash, and the Fragmentation of Scripture; Notes; Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations; General Subject Index. ‎</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Jack N. Lightstone</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Bible. -- A.T. -- Pentateuque -- Histoire.Judaism - History - 10-425 (Talmudic period).Judaism - History - Up to 70</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS1199.S6  .L5 1988</classification>
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