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Disputed authorship separates questions about a text’s reasoning from questions about its origin. Surviving witnesses, attribution arguments and uncertainty each require their own evidence.
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Guided course · Module 8 · Lesson 47
Testing inherited authority in Ethiopia
The Hatata gives religious reasons for testing inherited belief. Its unresolved authorship is a separate question from the strength of its reasoning.