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Mishael ben Uzziel and the Book of Differences

Written in Arabic by a Karaite scholar in Jerusalem around the turn of the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Book of Differences is the only reliable record of how the Masoretes Ben Asher and Ben Naftali disagreed, and the standard by which the great Tiberian codices are still classified.

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