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Title: A lecture not a book
Review: I am an admirer of this author: his brilliant insights, the warmth and humanity he brings to his studies of important ancient Jewish works. I thought I was buying his study of the Pharisees. Instead I found merely a lecture on the subject. It still had some great insights but I was disappointed. This pamphlet needed a subtitle: "A lecture given ... ."
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