Purim : : Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis / / Paul Haupt.
Approaching the question of Purim historically, Haupt notes that the book of Esther was composed during the reign of Judas Maccabeus, and he correlates the festival to the Babylonian New Year. He discusses the origin of the title “purim” from various languages, ultimately deciding on the Old Persian...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Analecta Gorgiana
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (60 p.) |
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