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Cultures of the Jews, Volume 1: Mediterranean Origins by David Biale

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4.0

Chapters by different authors, rather disparate in focus, though chronologically organised. Reminds me in that way of Ariès's 5 volume History of Private Life. Best chapter so far -- this is only volume 1, after all -- on Arabian Judaism in the early days of Islam.
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