The Treatise of the Three Impostors
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1997-02
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- Retrieved
- Jun 17, 2011
- ISBN
- 084768430X
- EAN
- 9780847684304
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Attempts to Discern the Authorship of the Treatise of the Three Imposters
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People Should not be Prevented from Using Common Sense
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