Is THE COVENANT CODE AN EXILIC COMPOSITION? A RESPONSE TO JOHN VAN SETERS

In Search of Pre-exilic Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 272-325

  Levinson, Bernard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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