A FRESH ESSAY ON DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY:

Evidence suggesting that the alleged “original manuscript” of which a purported “translation” appeared in

David Selbourne’s The City of Light: An Authentic Traveler’s Tale

is either a nineteenth- or twentieth-century fake or, more likely, has never existed[1]

David L. Gold

David L. Gold, a student of the humanities with a particular interest in human language and Judaica, began publishing in 1968. His work has appeared in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This is his first publication in Cyberspace. Later this year, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante will release his next book, Studies in Etymology and Etiology (With Emphasis on Germanic, Jewish, Romance, and Slavic Languages).

Edited for cyberspace publication by Seth Ward, Religious Studies, University of Wyoming. This preliminary web pre-publication version is not for citation or reference until further notice, pending resolution of technical issues and other matters including but not limited to characters used in romanized words. At that time an updated cyberspace publication will replace the current one.

Questions for the author may be directed via Seth Ward, sward@uuyo.edu

This pre-publication edition is broken up for convenience into seven files. The endnotes are indicated by superscript Roman numerals, and are at the end of each file.

Pagination is continuous, i.e., the first page of file 2 is numbered one more than the last page of file 1, but the pagination will probably be different in an anticipated updated version in which Romanization and other technical issues are solved.

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[1] Copyright 2008 by David L. Gold, who retains the right to republish, reprint, transmit, sell, distribute, and otherwise use the present work in electronic and print editions, and in derivative works throughout the world, in all languages, and in all media now known or later developed, and to license or permit others to do so.