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<p>[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 4477558, member: 13761"]That "culturally appropriate" language is boilerplate used by POD (print-on-demand) hucksters who are trying to sell public domain material. While sometimes true, it's hyperbole and in no way indicative of a book's historical or scholarly merit. They scan old books in libraries (or use others' scans) and clog on-line bookselling sites with the results. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not too unusual for Christian organizations to be interested in Jewish history, and witness modern Fundamentalists who are strong supporters of Israel.</p><p><br /></p><p>A badly-stained later printing of an odd volume of a German religious history is unlikely to be of value to a book collector, particularly if the text is elsewise available.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manycats, post: 4477558, member: 13761"]That "culturally appropriate" language is boilerplate used by POD (print-on-demand) hucksters who are trying to sell public domain material. While sometimes true, it's hyperbole and in no way indicative of a book's historical or scholarly merit. They scan old books in libraries (or use others' scans) and clog on-line bookselling sites with the results. Not too unusual for Christian organizations to be interested in Jewish history, and witness modern Fundamentalists who are strong supporters of Israel. A badly-stained later printing of an odd volume of a German religious history is unlikely to be of value to a book collector, particularly if the text is elsewise available.[/QUOTE]
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