Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Fixing a masoretic scribal manual

Here is an interesting excerpt from Dr. B. Barry Levy's Fixing God's Torah: The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law:


Fixing God's Torah is a study of the rabbinic effort to find, fix and preserve a perfect masoretic text of the Bible. This excerpt illustrates in an ironic way some of the difficulty in such a task.

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