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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s The ideas herein owe much to the many interlocutors in the broader conversation of which this volume is a part—including Doron Bar, Daniel Boyarin, Yaakov Elman, Martin Goodman, Cam Grey, Max Grossman, Yuval Harari, Marc Hirshman, Ross Kraemer, Robert Kraft, Derek Krueger, Lee Levine, Hindy Najman, Bob Ousterhout, Claudia Rapp, John Reeves, Seth Schwartz, David Stern, and Azzan Yadin. Special thanks to David Ruderman for his support of the project and to the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Production of the volume would not have been possible without financial support from the Herbert D. Katz Publications Fund and Littauer Faculty Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania. We are grateful also to Phil Webster, Phillip Fackler, and Alex Ramos for their work on the bibliography and index; and to Jerry Singerman for patiently shepherding the volume to publication. Thanks always to our boys: Peter and Adam Struck, Benjamin Fleming, and KunKun—who arrived happily somewhere between Part I and Part II of this volume. ...

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