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The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
Simon Schama
Simon Schama
Simon Schama
Born: Feb 13, 1945

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