When historians of the Hebrew Bible and scholars of Semitic paleography survey the surviving monuments of early medieval biblical transmission, the academic discourse is almost universally anchored around a select group of…
Of all the manuscript witnesses to the Pentateuch that have survived from antiquity, none is more puzzling, more singular, and more stubbornly useful to the textual scholar than the Samaritan Pentateuch. The…
In May 2023 the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv announced the acquisition, by donation, of a Hebrew Bible manuscript that had been absent from public view for most…
In the upper room of a synagogue in Cairo, sometime in the late nineteenth century, an English traveller was shown an old Hebrew codex of unusual size. The codex was opened at…
The lowest town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Tiberias, was, by the late seventh century of the Common Era, the only place in the world where the Hebrew…
The Damascus Pentateuch is one of the oldest complete Hebrew Bible codices to survive in something approaching its original form. It bears the shelfmark Codex Sassoon 507 and the manuscript identifier Ms.…
The text of the Hebrew Bible, as it now sits between the covers of a printed Mikraot Gedolot or a single-volume Hebrew Tanakh, looks deceptively clean. Page after page of square Aramaic…
On a low stone shelf above the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, a city once called Tiberias has been, since the second century, the principal Jewish intellectual centre of the…
