Are today's Jewish priests descended from the old ones?

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 156-162

  Zoossmann Diskin, Avshalom ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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