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Ridicules "Rabbinical Judaism, with its lumber of Frivolous traditions," while citing Maimonides in a condemnation of "Rabbinical penances" (pp. 78-79). Contains sections on Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem (pp. 100-102), and the Jewish war against Rome, as chronicled by Josephus, leading to the fall of Masada and the mass suicide of the Zealots (pp. 192-210). Rinderknecht 27027.