Scholar completes mission to 'fix' Bible
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Posted: 08/09/2012
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.
His edits mark the first major overhaul of the Hebrew Bible in nearly 500 years.
Poring over thousands of medieval manuscripts, the 84-year-old Cohen identified 1,500 inaccuracies in the Hebrew language texts that have been corrected in his completed 21-volume set. The final chapter is set to be published next year.
The corrections have no bearing on the Bible's stories and alter nothing in its meaning. Most were in the final two thirds of the Hebrew Bible and not in the sacred Torah scrolls.
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