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The Bible "Codes" -- A Textual Perspective (10066 words) |
 | The medieval grammarian and commentator Radak (Rabbi David Kimhi, 1160?-1235?) explained that this system was created because Bible texts were lost during the Babylonian exile and the best scholars died. |
| The later scholars who re-established the text found different readings in the surviving manuscripts and accepted the reading found in the majority of manuscripts, but when they couldn't make up their minds about a reading they indicated both possibilities with these marginal notes. |
| Kimhi held that such differences as Dodanim in Gen. 10:4 vs. Rodanim in 1 Chron. |
| Curriculum Vitae (1265 words) |
| Thesis: "Rabbi David Kimhi's Approach to Biblical Figurative Language" (Hebrew). |
| Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor: From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi. |
| “The Moral Sense of Scripture in David Kimhi and Moses Nahmanides, in Light of the Traditions They Inherited,” Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, March 2002. |
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