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The Leningrad Codex Facsimile (Best Price Rare)

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Softcover 2 Volume set, includes masorah & colophon & its pictoral squares, all of it. 989 Pages. This is the cheapest you’ll find this work anywhere.  It’s The Leningrad Codex in a portable, convenient, and easy to use form; this is perfect for both the novel collector, & the student. Is this Codex all it’s cracked up to be? What are the text variations found in this Hebrew as compared to what people call their received texts? You’ll have all the time in the world to see for yourself and Mark them.

SKU: 365737008653

1008 Leningrad Codex (Codex Leningradensis) 

Hebrew Bible Old Testament

 

FACSIMILE

(989 PAGES)

 

SEE THE ACTUAL MANUSCRIPT FOR YOURSELF, NOT WESTMINISTER’S RETYPED INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTERS

 

The oldest intact, complete, edition of  the Old Testament in Hebrew in existence

 

 

Softcover 2 Volume set, includes masorah & colophon & its pictoral squares, all of it. 989 Pages. This is the cheapest you’ll find this work anywhere.  It’s The Leningrad Codex in a portable, convenient, and easy to use form; this is perfect for both the novel collector, & the student. Is this Codex all it’s cracked up to be? What are the text variations found in this Hebrew as compared to what people call their received texts? You’ll have all the time in the world to see for yourself and Mark them. Nothing True is online as far as conclusions go. All Truth must be dug. Let us dig our graves, that there be wells for our children and our children’s children, except for Origen, he never had any children for obvious reasons.

 

These Are the Books included in Order:

Colophon,

Genesis,

Exodus,

Leviticus,

Numbers,

Deuteronomy,

masorah,

Joshua,

Judges,

1 Samuel,

2 Samuel,

1 Kings,

2 Kings,

Isaiah,

Jeremiah,

Ezekiel,

Hosea,

Joel,

Amos,

Obadiah,

Jonah,

Micah,

Nahum,

Habakkuk,

Zephaniah,

Haggai,

Zechariah,

Malachi,

masorah, 

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles, 

Psalms, 

Job

Proverbs

Ruth

Song of Songs

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Esther

Daniel

Ezra

Nehemiah

masorah and, 

colophons

The History of the Leningrad Codex

 

The Leningrad Codex (also called Codex Leningradensis) is the oldest complete edition of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament in Hebrew) in existence. It dates to around 1008-1010 A.D. and this date is confirmed by its colophon as well as internal and external evidence. Thus, at about the time the Crusaders were starting to march from Europe on their way to conquer the Holy Land, Hebrew Bible editions such as the Leningrad Codex were in use by Jews across the Middle East. The manuscript claims to have been written by Samuel ben Jacob in Cairo in 1008 and based on manuscripts by Aaron ben Moses ben Asher.

 

Because the Leningrad Codex is the oldest intact, complete, edition of the Hebrew Bible, it is frequently used as the basis for modern editions of the Hebrew Bible. For instance, BHS (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), BHQ (Biblia Hebraica Quinta) and BHL (Biblia Hebraica Leningradensia) are all based on the Leningrad Codex. Modern Bible software such as BibleWorks, Accordance and Logos all have electronic editions of the Leningrad Codex based on the text created by the Westminster Theological Seminary, and referred to as the Michigan-Claremont-Westminster Electronic Hebrew Bible.

 

However, the Leningrad Codex, although complete, is not the best quality Hebrew manuscript. Although carefully hand-written, it was corrected against the Aleppo Codex – and the Aleppo Codex remains the best quality manuscript exemplar. Other better quality manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible are also available, such as the Lisbon Bible. Thus, the main “claim to fame” of the Leningrad Codex is that it is the oldest complete Hebrew Bible.

 

The original Leningrad Codex was found by the Karaite Jewish collector Abraham Firkovich. It was taken to Odessa in 1838 and later transferred to the Imperial Library in St Petersburg. It is now preserved in the National Library of Russia, recorded as Hebrew manuscript Firkovich B19A.

 

The order of books in the Leningrad Codex is unusual, in that the order of books in the Writings is Chronicles, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, rather than following the traditional order of books in the Hebrew Bible.

 

The codex itself has flaws, naturally, but by and large the pages are easily read. A small number of pages in the original and, logically, in this reproduction, are flawed beyond readability. We painstakingly did our best to make a quality and faithful reproduction of the original. The Block Hebrew didnt exist until 800AD when the world counsel of Jews gathered together against Christ. Greek is son provably older, but sure, whatever. Magic, blah, blah. Dead sea scrolls are bs

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