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From
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/dygp9kt" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/dygp9kt<br><br>
</a><font size=3>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
See the above URL for more. YL<br>
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