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Book Title: A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud As Diaspora
Item Length: 9.4in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 6.3in
Author: Daniel Boyarin
Publication Name: Traveling Homeland : the Babylonian Talmud As Diaspora
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2015
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
