Bodleian Libraries use 21st-century digital technology to fulfil 12th-century Hebrew mandate - Bodleian Libraries

"The Bodleian Libraries have digitized and made available online part of the first comprehensive code of Jewish Law,...written between 1170 and 1180 by the rabbinic scholar Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, known as Maimonides....The launch of the digital version of the Mishneh Torah carries a symbolic connotation as it fulfils the will of one of the manuscript’s later owners, Eleazar, son of Perahya. He stated in his will that his copy of the Mishneh Torah should always be freely available for public consultation: ‘[The manuscript should] not be sold or redeemed, nor should any single person ever take possession of it. It should rather be kept available so that all scholars can correct their own version against it, but not read from it regularly or copy from it.’ By making the manuscript available online, the Bodleian is keeping Eleazar’s legacy...."