Zoroastrian and Hindu Connections in the Priestly Strata of the Pentateuch: The Case of Numbers 31:19-24.

Previous studies have traced important parallels between biblical and Iranian and Indie tradi-tions. As opposed to the meticulous philological work invested in the field of ancient near eastern parallels, however, the Indie and Iranian parallels to the Bible were often invoked in a very gen-eral man...

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Publicado en:Vetus Testamentum Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 577 - 605
Autor principal: Kiel, Yishai
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2013
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