Elias Levita

Scholars

Christian David Ginsburg

On a December day in 1897, in a reading room on Queen Victoria Street in London, a Christian scholar in his late sixties was checking the last proofs of the third volume…

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The Vowel-Point Controversy

For more than a century, Europe’s leading Hebraists argued over a question that sounds small: were the dots and dashes around the letters of the Hebrew Scriptures as old as the letters…