Book of Word Pairs
7th to 10th Century
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And I saw that there are some among the Hebrews who reject whatever is transmitted from the prophets by way of the unwritten precepts and laws, and similarly those who reject whatever they have heard…
An Early Manuscript Copy of the Notebook (Maḥberet)
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