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  • adjective Before the publication of the Bible.

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pre- +‎ biblical

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  • The world inhabited by the Azande, indeed, by our pre-Homeric, prebiblical ancestors, was first and foremost one in which we were different, and our being different made everything else different too.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • The world inhabited by the Azande, indeed, by our pre-Homeric, prebiblical ancestors, was first and foremost one in which we were different, and our being different made everything else different too.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • The world inhabited by the Azande, indeed, by our pre-Homeric, prebiblical ancestors, was first and foremost one in which we were different, and our being different made everything else different too.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • The world inhabited by the Azande, indeed, by our pre-Homeric, prebiblical ancestors, was first and foremost one in which we were different, and our being different made everything else different too.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • All that said, an interesting book with a prebiblical theme to adapt would be "The 22 Letters", about the invention of the alphabet.

    Ephemera 2009 (8) - The Mostly TV Edition Rogers 2009

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