Phillip Michael Sherman, Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish interpretation

Denecker, Tim

doi:10.1075/hl.41.1.06den

Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 41:1 (2014) ► pp.145–152

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Book review

Phillip Michael Sherman, Babel’s Tower Translated: Genesis 11 and Ancient Jewish interpretation

Reviewed by

Tim Denecker | University of Leuven

Published online: 10 June 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.41.1.06den

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