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    The People of the Book

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on February 14, 2018 by Martin Thomas (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted Mar 17, 2022)

    By “People of the Book” it meant principally Jews and Christians. These book-based religions were an intellectual innovation. The book-basis gave Christianity and Islam an expansive power and a cultural breadth that earlier religions had not had.