Finding the King’s Talmud

Finding the King’s Talmud 2015-01-08T18:22:21-04:00

By the time of King Henry VIII Lambeth Palace had become the official residence of the Archbishop of CanterbuBy the time of King Henry VIII Lambeth Palace had become the official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury the top position in the Anglican Church that Henry had created. It also has a world famous library. In 1991 a Hebrew expert from the British Library was poking his nose around the library there when he discovered a complete set of the Bomberg Talmud that had apparently lain there untouched for four centuries. It was annotated in Italian suggesting that it had been the possession of Christian scholars.

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