„The Holy Scriptures“ english-hebrew, „Sinai“ Pubishing, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1969, 14,3x11x7cm, binding metal, semi-precious stone.
Title page and endpaper (2nd leaf not visible)
Fotos: Karl-Heinz Stadtler
It is the authoritative form of the modern Hebrew Bible used in rabbinical Judaism. Its content is the Masoretic Text (7th to 10th century AD), which consists of 24 books divided into pesuqim (verses). The Hebrew Bible developed during the Second Temple period, when the Jews decided which religious texts were of divine origin.
The publishing house ‘Sinai’ Publishing, Tel Aviv, Israel, is a publishing house from Vienna and Bratislava, founded there in 1853 by Joseph Schlesinger. It moved its headquarters to Tel Aviv in 1939.