Israeli scholar completes mission to ‘fix’ Bible

By Aron Heller
Published August 12, 2012 4:00am ET
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Israeli scholar completes mission to ‘fix’ Bible
A Tuesday, July 31, 2012 photo, shows biblical scholar Professor Menachem Cohen, reading from a book, at the library of Bar Ilan University, outside Tel Aviv, Israel. For the past 30 years the 84-year-old Judaic biblical scholar has been immersed in a Sisyphean task of correcting all known errors in Jewish scripture to produce a definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible. Now, thanks to the internet, he's bringing it to the general public like never before with a sophisticated search engine that allows even novices to explore the holy text with ease.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty) | Dan Balilty

RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — For the past 30 years, Israeli Judaic scholar Menachem Cohen has been on a mission of biblical proportions: Correcting all known textual errors in Jewish scripture to produce a truly definitive edition of the Old Testament.

His edits, focusing primarily on grammatical blemishes and an intricate set of biblical symbols, mark the first major overhaul of the Hebrew Bible in nearly 500 years.

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