The Life of the People in Biblical TimesJewish Publication Society of America, 1929 - 236 pages |
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... centuries after the Return from Babylon in 538 B. C. E. The Bible therefore may be said to be all that has come down to us of the literature of the Jews from the earliest times up to about 300 B. C. E. But books continued to be written ...
... centuries after the Return from Babylon in 538 B. C. E. The Bible therefore may be said to be all that has come down to us of the literature of the Jews from the earliest times up to about 300 B. C. E. But books continued to be written ...
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Max Radin. men . Some centuries later the preparation and serving of food were very distinctly women's work , under ... century C. E. the Jews were charged with pampering their wives , and that by St. Jerome , a Roman and a Christian ...
Max Radin. men . Some centuries later the preparation and serving of food were very distinctly women's work , under ... century C. E. the Jews were charged with pampering their wives , and that by St. Jerome , a Roman and a Christian ...
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... centuries into the existing Midrashim . If teaching the people had ever been the exclusive privilege of the priests and Levites , it did not long remain so . The class of the scribes , the instructed men , of whom Ezra was an ...
... centuries into the existing Midrashim . If teaching the people had ever been the exclusive privilege of the priests and Levites , it did not long remain so . The class of the scribes , the instructed men , of whom Ezra was an ...
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