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The Plates

Three evidence dashboards, bound apart from the text: every verse each side cites, the manuscript record behind it, and the questions each tradition finds hardest — counted, coloured, and set out on one page.

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Plate 1

The Tanakh and the Oral Torah, audited

The Tanakh and the Oral Torah on the same terms — the manuscript record, the layers of rabbinic law, and where Jews and Muslims genuinely differ.

How directly each verse states its claim
12 Verses weighed
14 Witnesses dated
6 Layers of oral law

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Plate 2

What the cited verses actually say

Every verse both sides cite on the Trinity, scored on how directly it states its claim, how secure its wording is, and whose words they are.

How directly each verse states its claim
82 Verses weighed
8 Claims tested
12 Contested wording

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Plate 3

The Qur’an and the hadith, audited

The same instruments turned inward: the variant readings of the Qur’an, the manuscript record, and how a hadith is graded.

How directly each verse states its claim
14 Verses weighed
7 Witnesses dated
12 Collections and grades

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  • Explicit
  • Implicit
  • Ambiguous

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