Quoting%20commentary for Gittin 90:4
ספר תורה שכתבו עובד כוכבים תני חדא ישרף ותניא אידך יגנז ותניא אידך קורין בו
should be burnt, and one written by a heathen should be stored away. One that is found in the possession of a Min should be stored away; one that is found in the possession of a heathen according to some should be stored away and according to others may be read. With regard to a scroll of the Law which has been written by a heathen, it has been taught by one authority that it should be burnt, and it has been taught by another authority that it should be stored away, and it has been taught by another authority that it may be read. There is, however, no contradiction. The view that it should be burnt follows R. Eliezer, who said that the intention of the heathen is normally idolatrous;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that the scroll was written for an idolatrous purpose. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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