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People of the Book

~ MOSHE HALBERTAL

People of the Book Canon, Meaning, and Authority

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 1997

Copyright © 1997 by the Presidenr and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Primed in the United Scates of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Halbertal, Moshe. People of the book : canon, meaning, and authority / Moshe Halbertal. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-66111-7 (cloth: alk. paper). -ISBN 0-674-66112-5 (paper: alk. paper) 1. Bible. O.T.-Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. 2. Bible. O.T.-Canon. 1. Title. BS1186.H23 1997 296.1--