The Leningrad Codex - The BAS Library

Footnotes

1.

Robert S. MacLennan, “In Search of the Jewish Diaspora,” BAR 22:02.

2.

See Molly Dewsnap, “The Twins and the Scholar,” BAR 22:05.

4.

A number of sources state that the Leningrad Codex came from the Cairo Genizah. Manuscripts in the Second Firkovich Collection undoubtedly did come from the Cairo Genizah, but it is highly unlikely that this particular manuscript—a codex in superb condition—could ever have been in the Cairo Genizah, or in any other genizah.

Endnotes

1.

See Hermann L. Strack, A. Firkowitsch und seine Entdeckungen, trans. Astrid Beck (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1876), pp. 27–28.

2.

Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 6, cols. 1305–1306, vol. 10, col. 776.

3.

K.B. Starkova, “Les Manuscrits de la Collection Firkovic conserves à la Bibliotheque publique d’Etat Saltykov-Scedrin,” Revue des études juives 134 (1975), fascicles 3–4, pp. 102–117.

4.

Malachi Beit-Arie, “The Accessibility of the Russian Manuscript Collections: New Perspectives for Jewish Studies,” The Folio: The Bulletin of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center for Preservation and Research 13:1 (1995), p. 2.

5.

Beit-Arie, “Russian Manuscript Collections.”

6.

Beit-Arie, “Russian Manuscript Collections,” p. 5.

7.

Professor Oskar Braun of Würzburg published the letter in Syriac with a German translation in “Ein Brief des Katholikos Timotheos I über biblische Studien des 9 Jahrhunderts,” Oriens Christianus: Römische Halbjahrhefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients (Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1901), vol. 1, pp. 299–313 (trans. from German by Astrid Beck).

8.

“Egypt,” The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1903), vol. 5, p. 70.

9.

J.S. Penkower, “Maimonides and the Aleppo Codex,” Textus 9 (1981), pp. 39–128.

10.

See Harold P. Scanlin, “The History of Codex Leningradensis,” an unpublished paper prepared for the United Bible Societies committee working on BHQ; see also Abraham I. Katsh, Ginze Mishna (Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 1970); Katsh, Ginze Russiyah (New York: New York Library of Judaica and Hebraica, 1957–1958); and I. Yeivin, “The New Edition of the Biblia Hebraica—Its Text and Massorah,” Textus 7 (1969), pp. 114–123.

11.

See Garth Moller, “Leningrad Diary,” The Folio 10:2 (1990), pp. 1–3; and Marilyn Lundberg, “Leningrad Diary: Part II,” The Folio 10:3 (1990), pp. 1–3.

12.

See Dominique Barthelemy, Critique textuelle de l’Ancien Testament (Fribourg: Presses Universitaires, 1992), pp. ccxxix-ccxlii.