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With Dr. Yakov Mayer discussing the first edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi

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How Did the Print Affect the Transmission of the Text?

Alus Manutius was the most important printer printer in Venice. He printed a lot of Latin and Greek books. Most of his books were printed for minus four months later. The origin of the text is always pure and always whole, he said. But during the corrupted years of the medieval times, it became very corrupted. And we can stop this process with print, because now when I print 1000 copies, this corruption will stop - but more than that, print can bring us back to the beginning of time.

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