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In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, Dr. Michael Segal, editor for the Hebrew University Bible Project, right, Dr. Rafael Zer, editorial coordinator, left, Assaf Rosen-Zvi, coordinator for rabbinic literature, confer in their office at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For many Jews and Christians, religious beliefs dictate that the words of the Bible are divine, unaltered and unalterable. But the ongoing work of the academic detectives of the Bible Project, as their undertaking is known, shows that this foundation text of Western civilization has always been more fluid than these beliefs would suggest, and that its transmission through the ages was messier and more human than most of us imagine. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) 
