The report stated there had been a widespread assumption by many Christians, as well as many Jewish people, that the Bible "supports an essentially Jewish state of Israel".

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Miriam, as one of the first female leaders to appear in the Bible, has been venerated by Jewish feminists for generations.

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The influences on him, he supposed, were mostly Blake, Shakespeare and the King James Bible (though he was Jewish, he did not know Hebrew).

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