"The sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we study today." By dcbii Aug 12 2011 Scholars in this out-of-the-way corner of the Hebrew University campus have been quietly at work for 53 years on one of the most ambitious projects attempted in biblical studies — publishing the authoritative edition of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, and tracking every single evolution of the text over centuries and millennia. Tags: Masoretic TextPreservation 1802 reads