The Hebrew Bible printed

After the invention of printing, one of the first books to be printed was the Bible. The Hebrew text was also soon printed. The first complete printed Bible (editioprinceps) was published in 1488 In the north of Italy, a Soncino, to R.Joshua. Always in Italy, to Venice, there was the Dutch Daniel Bomberg printing business. The second edition of the Bible printed by Bomberg in 1524-1525 also reports the masora. This text remained in common use until the publication of the third edition of R. Kittel's Biblia Hebraica in 1937.

In 1522 the Biblia Polyglota Complutensia had also been published (6 volumes) of the cardinal Ximenes de Cisneros, archbishop of Toledo. For the TA, the text was arranged in three columns (Jewish, greco, latino).

The text of the Complutense is preferable to that of the Bomberg Bible, because the authors were able to consult older manuscripts. I masoreti (the name probably comes from the Hebrew word masora, “tradition”) they were scholars who did two types of work on the text: they placed vowel signs in the text and made observations on individual words or phrases.