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3 unusual facts about Max Letteris


Max Letteris

Letteris was a member of a family of printers that originally came from Amsterdam.

In his Hebrew version of Faust, Faust is replaced by the Jewish heretic Elisha ben Abuyah.

In 1852, during a period in which he faced financial difficulties, he agreed to edit an edition of the masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible for a Christian missionary organization, the British and Foreign Bible Society.



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