"The book was the culmination of twenty years’ study of Semitic and proto-Semitic languages. Allegro hoped it would illuminate the origins of thought, language and religion. People should then be able to better understand where they came from, shed the trappings of religion, and take true responsibility for what they did to each other and their world."
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; First edition, second printing edition (May 18, 1970).
ISBN-10: 0340128755
ISBN-13: 978-0340128756
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