The Leningrad Codex
A Facsimile Edition
Published on 9. February 1998
Book
Leather / fine binding
1018 pages
978-90-04-10854-7 (ISBN)
Description
The oldest complete Hebrew Bible in the world is the Leningrad Codex. Housed in the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library in St. Petersburg, Russia, and dating to 1009 C.E., the Leningrad Codex stands as the single most important extant manuscript for establishing the text of the Hebrew Bible and is the basis for virtually all critical editions of the Hebrew Bible.
In a landmark publishing event in biblical scholarship, the Leningrad Codex is now available for the first time in a facsimile edition. This beautiful scholar's edition of the Leningrad Codex, produced under the auspices of the University of Michigan in cooperation and consultation with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and West Semitic Research Project, features a high quality 25,4 x 30,5 cm. hardcover format that includes sixteen full-color illuminated carpet pages that capture in precise detail the Codex's lovely medieval artwork.
In a landmark publishing event in biblical scholarship, the Leningrad Codex is now available for the first time in a facsimile edition. This beautiful scholar's edition of the Leningrad Codex, produced under the auspices of the University of Michigan in cooperation and consultation with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and West Semitic Research Project, features a high quality 25,4 x 30,5 cm. hardcover format that includes sixteen full-color illuminated carpet pages that capture in precise detail the Codex's lovely medieval artwork.
Reviews / Votes
'...this edition will contribute to a wider understanding of what "the Bible" was during the period in which it was produced...As a whole, then, this edition takes the publication of the Bible into a remarkable new realm, while raising our awareness and appreciation of its long history.'Frederick E. Greenspahn, Religious Studies Review, 2000.
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Other
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth
Weight
5950 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-10854-7 (9789004108547)
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Astrid B. Beck is program associate, Program on Studies in Religion, at the University of Michigan. She is managing editor of The Anchor Bible Dictionary and coeditor of Fortunate the Eyes That See: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday
David Noel Freedman Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Michigan. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Anchor Bible Dictionary.
James A. Sanders is President of the Ancient Bible Manuscript Center and Professor at the School of Theology at Claremont.
David Noel Freedman Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Michigan. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Anchor Bible Dictionary.
James A. Sanders is President of the Ancient Bible Manuscript Center and Professor at the School of Theology at Claremont.