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Michael Carasik completes final volume of famed Commentators’ Bible
How was this project born, and what was it like to live with it for the past 17 years? The project got started more than a year before it was “born.” My wife (a physical therapist and physical anthropologist) got a National Science Foundation grant to spend July 2000 at the University of Alabama and […]