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A letter to the Reverend Mr. Kennicott, in which his defence of the Samaritan Pentateuch is examined, and his second dissertation on the state of the printed Hebrew text of the Old Testament is shewn to be in many instances injudicious and inaccurate. : With a postscript, occasioned by his advertising, before this letter was printed, that he had an answer to it in the press

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761].
Call number: 645274
Creator: Rutherforth, T (1712-1771)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Davar Antiquarian Books, March 2015.
Dimensions: 21 cm (8vo)
Associated people: Kennicott, Benjamin, (1718-1783.); Bentham, Joseph, (-1778,); Richardson, Joseph, (-1763,); Beecroft, John, (-1779,)
Associated organization: W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer (Booksellers : Cambridge, England),
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