Sometimes they challenge and contradict one another, but they are not best seen as linear, as telling a neat, linear story about Israelite religion flowering and fading.

有时候它们相互对质或矛盾，但它们从未被当作线性结构，整洁有序的故事,关于以色列宗教的兴盛与衰落。

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And syntax uses another neat trick, this is defined by Wilhelm von Humboldt as the "Infinite use of finite media."

语法使用了另一种神奇的把戏,威廉·冯·洪堡,将之定义为"有限域的无限应用"

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