Hebrew Text Anomalies: the scribal wonders of the text
The scribes who copied the Hebrew Bible preserved some strange things on purpose: an oversized bet at the start of Genesis, a small alef in Leviticus, dots over certain words, inverted nuns. Each anomaly is shown on a folio of the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete Hebrew Bible, with what the tradition says about it.
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Tap an entry, such as The Large Bet of Bereshit (Genesis 1:1), to see it on the manuscript page with the explanation.
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