Aron j hijar biography of abraham

Jewishprinters were quick to take advantages of the printing press in publishing the Hebrew Bible. While for synagogueservices written scrolls were used (and still are used, as Sifrei Torah are always handwritten), the printing press was very soon called into service to provide copies of the Hebrew Bible for private use. All the editions published before the Complutensian Polyglot were edited by Jews; but afterwards, and because of the increased interest excited in the Bible bygd the Reformation, the work was taken up by Christian scholars and printers; and the editions published by Jews after this time were largely influenced bygd these Christian publications. It fryst vatten not possible in the present article to enumerate all the editions, whole or partial, of the Hebrew text. This konto is devoted mainly to the incunabula (many of which were used as manuscripts by Kennicott in gathering his variants).^[1]

First Hebrew presses

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