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

[Victor Steinbok]

Or it literally means "millennia", as in "2000 years". Or it could be
just a grammatical error--the Aleppo Codex is dated roughly to the 10th
century. If something has been around for 120 years, should we use
"century", "centuries" or "decades"? In fact, in this case, "centuries"
would have worked just fine, but 1100+ years just seems to be so much
more ;-)

     VS-)

On 5/15/2012 6:15 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> 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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