The Naples Bible is the second printed
Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...
Bible in
Hebrew
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. The first complete printed Hebrew Bible, by a single publisher, and without commentary, was published by the
Soncino brothers in 1488, in Soncino. This was then followed by the Naples Bible in 1491–1493.
[David Noel Freedman, 2000 ''Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible'' page 1290Eerdmans p1290]
/ref> It is not to be confused with a 14th-century illuminated manuscript
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Bible, in the Latin Vulgate
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, also known as the " Illuminated Naples Bible".
External links
Digital reproduction
of the exemplar at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart
Entry
in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
Notes
Incunabula
1490s books
Early printed Bibles
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