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- ↑ Kim, Walter (2007). The Language of Verbal Insults in the Hebrew Bible (PhD diss.). ProQuest 304851595.
- ↑ "NAE leadership". National Association of Evangelicals.
- ↑ "NAE Appoints Walter Kim as Next President". National Association of Evangelicals. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ↑ Shellnutt, Kate (17 October 2019). "National Association of Evangelicals' New President Hopes to Bring Together a Movement in Crisis". Christianity Today. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
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