"I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public."
"The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn."
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Source: Theological-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza, (p. 92), 1670.
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