Rabbis Sorcerers Kings and Priests

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Rabbis  Sorcerers  Kings  and Priests
Author : Jason Sion Mokhtarian
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Language : English
Release Date : 02 November 2021
ISBN : 9780520385726
Pages : 290 pages
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"...examines the impact of the Persian Zoroastrian Empire on rabbinic identity and authority as expressed in the Babylonian Talmud."--

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