The Ten Commandments
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Dr. Martin Sicker is a writer and lecturer on the Middle East and Jewish history and religion. He is the author of 34 previous books including The Biblical Creation Narrative; Reading Genesis Politically; The Trials of Abraham; The Ordeals of Isaac and Jacob; Aspects of Jewish Metarational Thought; and The Moral Maxims of the Sages of Israel.
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