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| | Swarthmore College Professor Finalist for National Jewish Book Award |
 | | The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World (University of California Press, 2003) by Nathaniel Deutsch, associate professor of religion at Swarthmore College, is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. |
 | | Deutsch, whose expertise is in Judaism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity, has taught in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore since 1995 and is the chair of the Program in Interpretation Theory. |
 | | He is the author of Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (1999), The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995) and coeditor, with Associate Professor of Religion Yvonne Chireau, of Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (2000). |
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