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Work: Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo
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Biblical Antiquities — M. R. James 1917, retained OCR
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46 INTRODUCTION tells in detail one episode — the rescue of Abram from the fire — which J^^bilees omits, and passes over the rest of the period in a single page. Any- thing else that he has to say about Abraham and the rest is introduced into the speeches of later personages (Joshua, Deborah, etc.) by way of illustration. The two books agree in giving the names of the seventy souls who went down into Egypt. All this seems to me to show a consciousness of Jubilees, and an intentional avoidance, in the main, of the ground traversed by that book. Very rarely is there any coincidence of thought, b…
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- Biblical Antiquities — M. R. James 1917, retained OCR
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- Public domain
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- eng
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- Complete identified historical English edition body from title and contents through introduction, translation, appendices and final index p.280. Source translation starts at printed p.75 / physical object 78, including the complete narrative through the historical ending; final publisher adverts and library stamps/covers omitted. Includes historical conjectures and uncertainty as explicitly printed by James; no modern correction. Reader uses verified physical scan-page navigation; source OCR errors are visible and disclosed.
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Recorded provenance: Exact OCR LINE/WORD text from retained DjVu XML, joined with LF, retained in identified page order. Exact scan-data included leaf order verifies physical object IDs. No invented historical chapter labels, conjectural OCR correction or translation. Complete identified historical English edition body from title and contents through introduction, translation, appendices and final index p.280. Source translation starts at printed p.75 / physical object 78, including the complete narrative through the historical ending; final publisher adverts and library stamps/covers omitted. Includes historical conjectures and uncertainty as explicitly printed by James; no modern correction. Reader uses verified physical scan-page navigation; source OCR errors are visible and disclosed.
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