<div dir="ltr"><div align="left" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(76,1,113)"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12pt">We are pleased to announce the launch of a new version (1.2) of the '<em>Hachi </em></span><i style="line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12pt">Garsinan</i><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:12pt">' Site for</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Variant-Readings of the Talmud Bavli.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-family:'Times New Roman',Times,serif;color:rgb(76,1,113)"><div align="left"><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px">The site is freely accessible to all through the Friedberg portal: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001NmQpG_ZOJcYySHIAAWdvNzIf3T7UK0TKs1ZqL2fETd3Xaeojl4wHMF0EkY_1TBHPnvxn3NV6-jwpKuqj0ifFXnpuZejm2GywLrehURbiww9Y8dgzhgAAUlt30wynU3MOGQCUiJgKORnnuigD1HpAiDg7GKZzuixgI5qRbktqznjrgsdDMInOCQ==&c=afqnbMUqh216qPq8XeKPXp4lvsDxWLX4TSXxHzdT6PC-9G3lxkY0Jg==&ch=9WnhvXbIKPiKRQZN5YPH54VEP-8ziN3nVESkOwd7CYDKriD1n4P7dA==" shape="rect" alt="http://jewishmanuscripts.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://jewishmanuscripts.org</span></a>.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px">Version 1.1 of the website shows all hand-written text witnesses of the Talmud Bavli from the Cairo Genizah, with digital images (more than 4,600) and their transcriptions, in the framework of a software that allows the display of all text-witnesses of a specific Talmudic text in parallel columns in small units. Identical excerpts in a specific text-witness and in the Vilna can be marked, in order to spare the user the effort of comparing the texts. There are also additional helpful functions such as Save and Print, as specified in the website Homepage</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="line-height:18.3999996185303px">.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>In the new version (1.2) - text witnesses from the following early printings have been added:</b></span></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>Guadalajara</b></span><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>(1480?), Spain / Portugal (Toledo? 1480-1490), Portugal (Faro? before 1498), Faro (1497?), Fez (1516-1521)</b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>Soncino (1484-1489), Italy (1489-1498), Barco (1498-1499), Pesaro (1509-1516), Constantinople (1505-1509)</b></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>Venice</b></span><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b> (1520-1523) </b></span></li></ul><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>(for details on tractates included in early printings - see Homepage).</b></span><b style="line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt"> </b><br></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:18.3999996185303px;font-size:12pt"><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>Furthermore, a function has been added to enable the user search for </b></span><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>terms or expressions in the Vilna</b></span><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b> edition and each of the text witnesses that take part in the current version (Genizah and early printings) as well as a function to display the lexicon (</b></span><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>list of different words and their frequency</b></span><span style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b>) of Vilna and of each of the other text-witnesses. Finally, the new version allows each user to alter the way that the text units are displayed on the variant-readings screen, using special editing tools designed for this purpose.</b></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="line-height:18.3999996185303px"><b> </b></span></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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