Rabbenu Tam (1100-1171), the greatest of the Tosafists, for example, wrote that it seemed to him that they "who emend needlessly will be sentenced to the chambers of hell."10
10 Sepher Hayashar, ed. S.F. Rosenthal (New York, 1959), p. 75.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, May 07, 2017
Punishment for Unnecessary Emendations
Dov Zlotnick (1925-2014), Introduction to Saul Lieberman (1898-1983), Greek in Jewish Palestine/Hellenism in Jewish Palestine (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1994), p. x: