''Beit Mikra: Journal for the Study of the Bible and Its World'', also known as ''Bet Mikra'' and ''Beth Mikra'' ( he, בית מקרא), is a

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journal about the

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. It is published by the World Jewish Bible Center. ''Beit Mikra'' was founded by Ben Zion Luria as the Hebrew-language publication of the Israel Society for Biblical Research, which later became the Israeli branch of the World Jewish Bible Society. (The ''

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'' was later established as the World Jewish Bible Society's English-language journal.) After a reorganization in 1989, the Israel Society for Biblical Research was reduced to publishing ''Beit Mikra'' "on a miserly (and often delayed) grant from the

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