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Happy Birthday Leningrad Codex!
By Justin Jenkins | April 9, 2008
The Leningrad Codex is the basis of Biblia Hebraica and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and is the oldest complete Hebrew Bible still preserved.
Is it “really” it’s birthday, who knows but “according to its colophon” the codex was — well ‘dexed — in 1008 AD (but maybe more like 1010 AD) making it 1,000 years old today (or sometime this year not accounting for various differences in lunar/solar calendars and leap year.)
So happy birthday Leningrad Codex!
Topics: Bible |
April 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Wow… I think you’re going to have to explain this one to me later.