“To be sure, these witnesses provide an excellent illustration of textual dynamics, and they deepen our knowledge of the development of the Bible text in the technical sense.”

Of his analysis of mediaeval Biblical manuscripts.
"Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts" (Biblica, 48 (1967), pp.243-290)

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