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This is a reprint of Jacob Ben Chayyim's Hebrew Tanach, as compiled by C.D. Ginsburg with footnotes which indicate variants from early printings, manuscripts, and ancient versions like the LXX. The text and all the notes are in Hebrew. Unlike other commonly used editions of the Ben Chayyim text, this special edition has the text printed in a large and easy-to-read format! The Ben Chayyim Text is considered the Textus Receptus of the Old Testament, and is the official traditional Hebrew version of the Tanakh. The Text itself is based upon that of the first edition of Jacob ben Chajim's Massoretic Recension, printed by Bomberg, at Venice, in the year I524-1525. No variations, however strongly supported by Hebrew MSS. and Ancient Versions, are introduced in the Text itself, which has been compiled strictly in accordance with the Massora collected from the MSS. All variations are relegated entirely to the margin. While the modern divisions of chapters and verses are noted for the sake of convenience, the Text is arranged according to the ancient chapters and sectional divisions of the Massora and the MSS., which are thus restored. It uniformly reproduces the Dageshed and Raphed letters, which are found in all the best Massoretic MSS., but which have been omitted in all the current printed editions of the Hebrew Bible. 6. The ancient Massoretic chapters, called Sedar-im, are also indicated throughout in the margin against their respective places. Volume I: Genesis - 2nd Kings.

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""DR. CHRISTIAN D. GINSBURG has, for the last thirty years, devoted all his indefatigable energies to the study of the Massora and the Hebrew text of the Bible. ...his beautifully printed Hebrew Bible, must be pronounced achievements of value. The industry, extending over decades, and the untiring zeal which Christian D. Ginsburg has devoted to the unploughed field of the Massora, not only deserve appreciation but most genuine admiration."" - LUDWIG BLAU, the Jewish quarterly Review

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Jacob ben Hayyim (Jacob ben Chayyim) was a scholar of the Masoretic textual notes on the Hebrew Bible, as well as an exegete and printer. He left his native country to escape the persecutions that broke out there at the beginning of the sixteenth century and later settled in Venice, where he was engaged as corrector of the Hebrew press of Daniel Bomberg. Ben Chayyim's name is known chiefly in connection with his edition of the Mikraot Gedolot or ""Rabbinical Bible"" (1524-25), which he supplied with Masoretic notes and an introduction. The value of his activity as a Masorete was recognized even by Elia Levita. Ben Chayyim's Rabbinical Bible is believed to be the source text used by the translators of the King James Version.

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