A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
The cited information was published by Oxford University Press, 1999. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. [http://www.oxfordreference.com/views] The author/originator was Louis Jacobs.
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HOLY PLACES
The Jewish religion, like any other, has its holy places, locations possessing a special degree of sanctity, some to a greater extent than others. In polytheistic religions, where the earth is seen as inhabited by a multiplicity of gods, iti