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| | <b>Oralb> Law - Critique of the <b>Oralb> Torah - Am ha-Aretz |
 | | The entire <b>oralb> law in the wider sense, namely, the entire material of the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and the halakic midrashim, was preserved only orally, and was not reduced to writing until the beginning of the third century C.E., because there was a prejudice against recording halakot. |
 | | The existence of an <b>oralb> law dating from the Mosaic time implies, of course, the belief that the Pentateuch, in the form in which it now exists, was entirely the work of Moses, to whom it was revealed by God. |
 | | Objections, on the other hand, which are brought against the assumption of the existence of the <b>oralb> law by those who believe in revelation and who recognize the divine origin of the written law, or "Torah shebiketab," lack support. |
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