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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1707. Excerpt:... teuch 1 and I perceive that there are a great many Learned Men now-a-days, who believe that the Carraites do very much differ from the reft of the Jews touching the Text of the Bible. I knownot from whence a Doftor of the Sorbonne, their King's Profeffor of Hebrew, has taken what he has written not long fince upon this Subject, concerning the Carraites.: He explains the word Carraim, or Carraites,in thefe Terms: That u to fay y thoje who receive only the Confonants in their Bibles, and not the Points-y becaufe they believe that the Points come only from Tradition. And a little after he adds, That the Carraites have infenfiblj pre.vail'd among the Jews, especially among the Talmudifts and Allegorifts-: and that they h&v.e alfo very "afily believ'd, that the Books of the Law vd'jtr ave Points Areprofane. Therein fcarce 0 Vprd true, in all the Difcourfe of this Learned ProfefTor, as will appear by what follows. IV. The Name of the Carraite who was" the Author of that Commentary which I juft now mention'd, is Aaron Ben Jofeph, and liv'd toward the end of the Thirteenth Century. He approves of all the Books of the Bible which are receiv'd in the Jemjb Canon, and calls them the Ttventy-four, as the other Jews do. To' diftinguifh them from Human Traditions, he fometimes calls them Prophecy, not being willing. to place the Word of G o D, and thofe of Men upon the fame Level. Upon which account, he blames the Rabbinijls, who make the Fables of the Talmud and the Conceits of their Anceftors, go hand-in-hand with the Sacred "Books of the Scripture. Befides, he lets us fee, that the Carraites L 4 do. do n6r,, as-fome have faid, reject all forts of Tradition, but only thofe which are falfe and abfurd; of which he" gives fome Examples, in the beginning of his Work, wh...