“This identity is neither coincidental nor self-evident.”

— Moshe Goshen-Gottstein

Commenting that his reconstruction of the history of text of the Bible agrees with that produced by other methods.
"Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts" (Biblica, 48 (1967), pp.243-290)

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Israeli linguist 1925–1991

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