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Sharing the Spoils: The Historical use of Loans and Gifts as Collecting Methodologies for Building Biblical Archaeology Teaching Collections Cover

Sharing the Spoils: The Historical use of Loans and Gifts as Collecting Methodologies for Building Biblical Archaeology Teaching Collections

By: Julian Hirsch  
Open Access
|Dec 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-662 | Journal eISSN: 2047-6930
Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 3, 2021
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Accepted on: Oct 5, 2021
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Published on: Dec 30, 2021
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