Biblia Hebraica

Creator

Date

1611

Identifier

Shoults Lb 1611 B

Type

Publisher

[Leiden: Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii]

Abstract

In the early years of printing, Italy reigned supreme when it came to the printing of Hebrew. In 1475, the first dated Hebrew book was completed in Reggio di Calabria; on 26 January 1482, the first edition of the Pentateuch (often called the Five Books of Moses or the Torah) appeared at Bologna; and on 22 April 1488, the first complete Hebrew Bible appeared at Soncino. Leiden also featured. This Latin-Hebrew Bible was printed in 1611 by Franciscus Raphelengius, a pioneer of Hebrew typography in the Netherlands. The interlinear Latin translation is by Santes Pagninus (1470-1536), whose Latin version of the Hebrew Bible greatly aided future scriptural translators and scholars. Here is an early portion of the Book of Genesis.

Files

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Citation

___, “Biblia Hebraica,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 6, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10745.