Edited by Jacob b. Chaim of Tunis. With Targum Onkeles and commentary by Rashi, ibn Ezra, Kimchi, Targum, etc.

<<The Second Mikra’oth Gedoloth (Biblia Rabbinica) Printed.>> The first Rabbinic Bible to present the Massorah. The text of this edition became the standard Massoretic text for all subsequent editions. See D.S. Berkowitz, In Remembrance of Creation (1968) no. 166. The first Biblia Rabbinica, printed by Bomberg in 1516-7 was edited by the apostate Jew Felix Pratensis and contained the Imprimatur of the Pope. Bomberg soon realized that these two facts marginalized his new Mikraoth Gedoloth from the Jewish market. He therefore employed Jacob b. Chaim ibn Adonijah, newly arrived in Venice (after being driven out of Spain and then Tunis), as editor of this second Biblia Rabbinica. A meticulous, and most knowledgeable scholar, Joseph b. Chaim went to great pains to secure as many codices with a masorah as possible. For the first time, there was subsequently issued a printed Hebrew Bible with a marginal masorah, which, as hoped by Bomberg, was received with acclaim by the Jewish market.<<THUS, THIS BIBLE MAY BE SAID TO BE THE FIRST “JEWISH” RABBINIC BIBLE.>>