while others maintain that he was not a prophet at all and that the Torah was merely collated with an ancient manuscript that had been found. Some also report that a copy kept in the western lands was brought forward for comparison. Yet none of this establishes that every word of the text was conveyed through tawatur, nor does it preclude the possibility of error creeping into some portions—exactly as happens with any book whose copying, collation, and safeguarding are entrusted to only a handful of people, two or three at most.