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Samuel Sandmel

Scholar whose influential “Parallelomania” appeared in 1962.

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In his Journal of Biblical Literature article, Sandmel warned against magnifying similarities and inferring literary dependenceLiterary dependenceA relationship explaining a text’s composition through another text.Glossary · Click to read the explanation and direction without adequate argument. [1]

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  1. Samuel Sandmel, “Parallelomania”, JBL 81/1 (1962), pp. 1–13 Indexed opening and context passages read; full article not directly accessible. He did not claim to coin the word. Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 11 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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