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In "A Winter's Tale," William Shakespeare describes Bohemia as a country with a coastline and a desert. Would Bohemia, still a very powerful kingdom at the time, be that obscure to someone as well-read and knowledgeable as Shakespeare?

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Would a jewish man, before Jesus' time, consider the stories of the old testament to be inerrant and literal truth, or largely moral and spiritual metaphors?

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In "A Winter's Tale," William Shakespeare describes Bohemia as a country with a coastline and a desert. Would Bohemia, still a very powerful kingdom at the time, be that obscure to someone as well-read and knowledgeable as Shakespeare?	715
Would a jewish man, before Jesus' time, consider the stories of the old testament to be inerrant and literal truth, or largely moral and spiritual metaphors?	544