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3 unusual facts about Benjamin Kennicott


Benjamin Kennicott

Between 1760 and 1769 ten "annual accounts" of the progress of the work were given; in its course 615 Hebrew manuscripts and 52 printed editions of the Bible were either wholly or partially collated, and use was also made (but often very perfunctorily) of the quotations in the Talmud.

It yielded no materials of value for the emendation of the received text, and by disregarding the vowel points overlooked the one thing in which some result (grammatical if not critical) might have been derived from collation of Massoretic manuscripts.

Thomas Rutherforth

Benjamin Kennicott published in 1762 an answer, to which Rutherforth retorted in ‘A Second Letter.’



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