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- ↑ Adversus Judaeous by Arthur Lukyn Williams
- ↑ Nuffelen, Peter Van. "2017. Prepared for All Occasions: The Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue, in A. Cameron and N. Gaul, eds., Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Routledge, London, 2017, 65-76".
- ↑ Nuffelen, Peter Van. "2017. Prepared for All Occasions: The Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue, in A. Cameron and N. Gaul, eds., Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Routledge, London, 2017, 65-76".
- ↑ Nuffelen, Peter Van. "2017. Prepared for All Occasions: The Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue, in A. Cameron and N. Gaul, eds., Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Routledge, London, 2017, 65-76".
- ↑ Adversus Judaeous by Arthur Lukyn Williams
- ↑ Adversus Judaeous by Arthur Lukyn Williams
- ↑ Adversus Judaeous by Arthur Lukyn Williams
- ↑ Adversus Judaeous by Arthur Lukyn Williams
- ↑ Nuffelen, Peter Van. "2017. Prepared for All Occasions: The Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue, in A. Cameron and N. Gaul, eds., Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Routledge, London, 2017, 65-76".
- ↑ Nuffelen, Peter Van. "2017. Prepared for All Occasions: The Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue, in A. Cameron and N. Gaul, eds., Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Routledge, London, 2017, 65-76".
- ↑ Nuffelen, Peter Van. "2017. Prepared for All Occasions: The Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue, in A. Cameron and N. Gaul, eds., Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Routledge, London, 2017, 65-76".
- ↑ Nuffelen, Peter Van. "2017. Prepared for All Occasions: The Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue, in A. Cameron and N. Gaul, eds., Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Routledge, London, 2017, 65-76".
- ↑ Adversus Judaeous by Arthur Lukyn Williams