From Bomberg to the Beit Midrash: A Cultural and Material History of Talmudic Page Layout

CLARIFICATION: Yoel Finkelman’s “From Bomberg to the Beit Midrash: A Cultural and Material History of Talmudic Page Layout” states that Bomberg was the first to include verse numbers in the second Rabbinic Bible (Mikraot Gedolot), printed in Venice in 1525 (TRADITION, Winter 2023, 28 n. 28, 41). In fact, Bomberg included verse numbers only in the later 1548 edition. In that edition, every fifth verse is numbered in the margin. We thank Prof. Jordan Penkower for drawing our attention to these details. For a review of the history of verse numbering in Hebrew Bibles, see his “The Verse Divisions in the Hebrew Bible,” Vetus Testamentum 50:3 (2000), 379-393.