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CAPPEL, LOUIS. Critica sacra, sive, De variis quae in Sacris Veteris Testamenti libris occurrunt lectionibus libri sex. [24], 739, [45] pages. Folio, 340x217 mm, contemporary vellum boards, backed with calf at a later date, surface imperfections on spine, joints worn; contents toned with occasional foxing or browning, scattered pencil underscoring and marginalia. 19th-century bookplate of Meadville Theological School, their perforated stamp on front free endpaper. Paris: Sébastien Cramoisy, 1650
first edition. After his pioneering work on the antiquity of Hebrew vowels, which he showed to be a Masoretic innovation, Cappel published this investigation into the reliability of the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible. "The differences between the ancient versions and the Masoretic text convinced him that the integrity of the Hebrew text, as held by Protestants, was untenable. This amounted to an attack on the verbal inspiration of Scripture" (EB). EJ XVI, 1393; Smitskamp 287.
