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This is pretty remarkable news<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0For the past 30 years, Israeli Judaic scholar Menachem Cohen has been on a mission of biblical proportions: Correcting all known textual errors in Jewish scripture to produce a truly definitive edition of the Old Testament.<\/p>\n

His edits, focusing primarily on grammatical blemishes and an intricate set of biblical symbols, mark the first major overhaul of the Hebrew Bible in nearly 500 years.<\/p>\n

Poring over thousands of medieval manuscripts, the 84-year-old Cohen identified 1,500 inaccuracies in the Hebrew language texts that have been corrected in his completed 21-volume set. The final chapter is set to be published next year.<\/p>\n

The massive project highlights how Judaism venerates each tiny biblical calligraphic notation as a way of ensuring that communities around the world use precisely the same version of the holy book.<\/p>\n

According to Jewish law, a Torah scroll is considered void if even a single letter is incorrect or misplaced. Cohen does not call for changes in the writing of the sacred Torah scrolls used in Jewish rites, which would likely set off a firestorm of objection and criticism. Instead, he is aiming for accuracy in versions used for study by the Hebrew-reading masses.<\/p>\n

For the people of the book, Cohen said, there was no higher calling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of Israel took upon themselves, at least in theory, one version of the Bible, down to its last letter,\u201d Cohen said, in his office at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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