"millenia" = 'an indefinite but lengthy period of years'

[Joel S. Berson]

and presumably greater than centuries but less than aeons.

"Perhaps the most authoritative manuscript of the Jewish Bible, the
Aleppo Codex, called the Crown, had been annotated by Maimonides
himself and safeguarded by the Jewish diaspora for millennia."

Book review by Brook Wilensky-Lanford of 'The Aleppo Codex' by Matti
Friedman. Boston Globe, today.

Brook Wilensky-Lanford, author of "Paradise Lust: Searching for the
Garden of Eden," can be reached through her website, www.paradiselustbook.com.

Joel

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