Dikdukei Soferim (Hebrew: דקדוקי סופרים) is the name of a series of books written by Rabbi

Raphael Nathan Nata Rabbinovicz Raphael Nathan Nota Rabinovicz (Rabbinovicz/Rabbinowitz) (1835–Nov 28, 1888) authored Dikdukei Soferim (Dikdukei Sofrim), a 15 volume work containing variant readings of half the six orders of the ''Mishna'' and two tractates of the ''Babylonian T ...

, which bring different textual variants of the

Babylonian Talmud The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cent ...

from the

Munich 95 manuscript The Munich Codex Hebraica 95 ("Munich, Beyerische Staatbibliothek, Cod. Heb. 95) was written by Solomon b. Samson (Shlomo ben Shimshon) in France. He completed his copying task in 1342. It is the only existing handwritten copy of the entire Babyloni ...

(written in 1342, the only surviving manuscript covering the entire Talmud and without Christian censorship), alongside comparisons to other manuscripts, old printings, and writings of the

rishonim ''Rishonim'' (; he, ; sing. he, , ''Rishon'', "the first ones") were the leading rabbis and '' poskim'' who lived approximately during the 11th to 15th centuries, in the era before the writing of the ''Shulchan Aruch'' ( he, , "Set Table", a ...

. It also includes notes which clarify the meaning of the different variants, and sometimes include the author's opinion of which of the variants is preferable. Fifteen volumes of the series were published sequentially between 1867 and 1886. The author died in 1888, and the sixteenth volume was published postmortem in 1897, based on his notes. These 16 volumes do not cover the entire Talmud; a variety of more recent projects have attempted to complete the project for the remaining tractates."ר' רפאל נתן נטע רבינוביץ וספרו דקדוקי סופרים", בתוך: עמודים בתולדות הספר העברי, הגהות ומגיהים, רמת גן: הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, מהדורה שנייה, תשס"ה-2005, p.516-7

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