(but often very perfunctorily) of the quotations in the Talmud. The materials thus collected, when arranged and prepared for the press, extended to 30 volumes. The text finally followed in printing was that of Van der Hooght—unpointed however, the points having been disregarded in collation—and the various readings were printed at the foot of the page. The Samaritan Pentateuch stands alongside the Hebrew in parallel columns. The Dissertatio generalis, appended to the second volume, contains an account of the manuscripts and other authorities collated, and also a review of the Hebrew text, divided into periods, and beginning with the formation of the Hebrew canon after the return of the Jews from the exile. Kennicott's great work was in one sense a failure. It yielded no materials of value for the emendation of the received text, and by disregarding the vowel points overlooked the one thing in which some result (grammatical if not critical) might have been derived from collation of Massoretic manuscripts. But the negative result of the publication and of the Variae lectiones of De Rossi, published some years later, was important. It showed that all Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament, whatever their affinities and distinctions, were the result of an editorial process in antiquity that shields the original text from inquiry except indirectly through the study of versions and quotations. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls ended the transmissional monopoly of the Massoretic Text, but only in the Book of Isaiah and several much shorter passages, nonetheless comprising excerpts from almost every book of the Old Testament. Kennicott Fellowship Kennicott's work was perpetuated by his widow, who founded two university scholarships at Oxford for the study of Hebrew. The fund originally yielded an income of £200 per annum. Currently, the Kennicott Fellowship is a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellowship in Ancient Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, and related topics. The fellowship initially supported doctoral students but was later re-purposed to fund the present position. The current Kennicott Fellow is Hallel Baitner; past fellows include S. R. Driver, Norman Whybray, Jocelyn Davey (Chaim Raphael), Anselm Hagedorn, Jennie Grillo, Timothy Lim, Daniel Falk, Katherine Southwood, and John Screnock. As of 2008, the value of the Kennicott Hebrew Fellowship was in the order of £19,263. Publications A full facsimile of the Bodleian Library's Kennicott Bible, MS. Kennicott 1, has been published. Family In 1771 Kennicott married Ann Chamberlayne, sister of Edward Chamberlayne