"This period is characterized by a diversity of textual transmissions undreamed of two decades ago."
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Referring to the state of the Bible in Persian times, circa 300BCE.
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Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (6 September 1925 – 14 September 1991) was professor of Semitic linguistics and Biblical philology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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