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References
- ↑ Apologetics Press, The Canon and Extra-Canonical Writings, 2003
- ↑ See also Josephus, Antiquities, 7:13,4
- ↑ Burial Places of the Fathers, published by Yehuda Levi Nahum in book: Ṣohar la-ḥasifat ginzei teiman (Heb. צהר לחשיפת גנזי תימן), Tel-Aviv 1986, p. 253 (Hebrew)
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