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illiam Ramsay didn’t set out to prove the Bible’s accuracy. In Roger Foster, Melvin Rhodes, Tom Robinson, John Ross Schroeder
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1879 from England for Asia Minor convinced that, based on his Editorial reviewers: John Bald, Bruce Gore, Paul Kieffer, Graemme
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