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Part I - Legal Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

C. L. Crouch
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Fuller Theological Seminary, California
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  • Edited by C. L. Crouch, Fuller Theological Seminary, California
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics
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  • Edited by C. L. Crouch, Fuller Theological Seminary, California
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics
  • Online publication: 05 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108562072.002
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