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by Martin J. Plax, Samuel Rabinove, Walter Berns, Jakob J. Petuchowski, Robert Alter, Eric Chenoweth, Stanley Burnshaw, Ella Wolfe, Ronald Hilton, Lev Navrozov, and Steven Goldberg

Commentary, June 1982, pp. 4-18

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