The Number Seventy-two: Biblical and Hellenistic Beginnings to the Early Middle Ages
This article treats the widespread and complex symbolism of the number seventy-two from the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 to Isidore of Seville in the early seventh century. Whereas later authors attribute the notion of seventy or seventy-two original nations and languages in the world to Genesis 1...
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Brepols
2013
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Sacris erudiri
Year: 2013, Volume: 52, Pages: 7-45 |
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