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The gods gave my donkey win...
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Other Than a Man
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Bow Group: A History
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The Old Identities
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The Scottish Covenanters
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The Treatment of Typhoid Fe...
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The Semantics of Bible Lang...
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Jewish apocalyptic in recen...
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“A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements must be based on the social linguistic consciousness related to usage.”
― James Barr, The Semantics of Biblical Language
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“It was as if in exploring each other, each of them discovered something of himself he had not yet learned to love.”
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“Her voice had something of the warm darkness in it.”
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