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Bible Books: The Oldest Text of the Hebrew Bible

By James A. Sanders

Biblia Hebraica Leningradensia

Edited by Aron Dotan

(Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2001) 1,262 pp., $49.95 (hardback)

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the recovery of the two oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible—the Aleppo Codex and the Leningrad Codex—all occurred in the past 75 years; together they have revolutionized textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible in ways hardly imagined just decades ago.

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Footnotes

1.

See Astrid Beck and James A. Sanders, “The Leningrad Codex,” BR 13:04.

2.

The three sections of the Hebrew Bible are Torah (Genesis through Deuteronomy), Nevi’im (Prophets; Joshua through the Twelve Minor Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings; Psalms through Chronicles). The three sections together are known by the acronym Tanakh.