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JUST LIFE - Dr Kim Phillips - The Oldest Hebrew Bible and the Cairo Genizah

Radio Maria UK

When you read the Old Testament, where did the text come from? Can we trace the story of the manuscripts? The earliest complete Hebrew Bible dates all the way back to AD1008 but how accurate is it? Dr Kim Phillips from the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library opens up for us his work on Old Testament manuscripts, in a glorious sweep that takes us from the centuries before Jesus all the way to the Middle Ages. Dr Kim Phillips studied Hebrew and the Old Testament at Cambridge University. In his PhD he looked at an important medieval Jewish commentary on the book of Isaiah and he has worked since on Hebrew and Aramaic Bible manuscripts from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.