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A traditional assumption of many translators is that in general the best available avenue back to the “original text” of the Old Testament is through the Masoretic Text (MT). This text is preserved in the great medieval codices such as Leningrad Codex (c. A.D. 1008) used as the basis of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and the Aleppo Codex (c. A.D. 952) the ...
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It would be a oversimplification to claim that Aleppo and Leningrad have any simple evolutionary relationship. Aleppo is older, Leningrad is younger. However, if you could arrange all the lost manuscripts in a tree, they might have a common ancestor. Anyone reading Hebrew Bible spends time puzzling over textual variations between Leningrad and other ...
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