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story the "onward pushing spirit." Especially during that half of the
story set in England, this personal voice tries to be heard within the
environments not simply of social fonns but also within a language
and conversational mode derivative of them. Except for what can
be
borrowed from literature and myth, this social language is all his
characters have as an instrument for defining that "spirit" and for
entering into dialogue with it.
In another age, the
author
of this
book
would have been
burned at
the stake
THE PASSOVER PLOT
A Daring New Interpretation of the Life and Death of Jesus
By DR. HUGH
J.
SCHONFIELD,
author of
Secrets of the Dead Sea Scro11s
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