[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences
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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks
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