[Avodah] Menachem Cohen, Israeli Scholar, Completes Mission To 'Fix' Hebrew Bible

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://tinyurl.com/dygp9kt

RAMAT GAN, Israel -- For the past 30 years, Israeli Judaic scholar 
Menachem Cohen has been on a mission of biblical proportions: 
Correcting all known textual errors in Jewish scripture to produce a 
truly definitive edition of the Old Testament.

His edits, focusing primarily on grammatical blemishes and an 
intricate set of biblical symbols, mark the first major overhaul of 
the Hebrew Bible in nearly 500 years.

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The errors have no bearing on the Bible's stories and alter nothing 
in its meaning. Instead, for example, in some places the markers used 
to denote vowels in Hebrew are incorrect; or a letter in a word may 
be wrong, often the result of a centuries old transcription error. 
Some of the fixes are in the notations used for cantillation, the 
text's ritual chants.

Most of the errors Cohen found were in the final two thirds of the 
Hebrew Bible and not in the sacred Torah scrolls, since they do not 
include vowel markings or cantillation notations.

See the above URL for more. YL

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