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    Cover of Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
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    Ancient Israel: The For­mer Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
    Robert Alter
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    The Gods Are Bro­ken!: The Hid­den Lega­cy of Abraham
    Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
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    Redis­cov­er­ing Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
    Carol Meyers
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    Sin­ning in the Hebrew Bible: How The Worst Sto­ries Speak for Its Truth
    Alan F. Segal
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    No Reli­gion With­out Idol­a­try: Mendelssohn’s Jew­ish Enlightenment
    Gideon Freudenthal
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    Cho­sen Cap­i­tal: The Jew­ish Encounter with Amer­i­can Capitalism
    Rebecca Kobrin, ed.
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    Pover­ty and Wel­fare among the Por­tuguese Jews of Ear­ly Mod­ern Amsterdam
    Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
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    Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
    Bracha Yaniv
    Cover of Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets
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    Lega­cy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Rit­u­al Mur­der in the Lands of the Soviets
    Elis­sa Bemporad
    Cover of Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity
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    Jew­ish-Chris­t­ian Dia­logues on Scrip­ture in Late Antiquity
    Michal Bar-Asher Siegel
    Cover of Rashi's Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic
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    Rashi’s Com­men­tary on the Torah: Can­on­iza­tion and Resis­tance in the Recep­tion of a Jew­ish Classic
    Eric Lawee
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    The Hebrew Bible: A Trans­la­tion with Commentary
    Robert Alter
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    Dis­si­dent Rab­bi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas
    Yaacob Dweck
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    Kugel and Fri­joles: Lati­no Jews in the Unit­ed States
    Lau­ra Limonic
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    Liv­ing in Sil­ver­a­do: Secret Jews in the Sil­ver Min­ing Towns of Colo­nial Mexico
    David M. Gitlitz
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    Jacob: Unex­pect­ed Patriarch
    Yair Zakovitch
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