---
title: "Marvin J. Heller"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Marvin J. Heller"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Talmud print history","Daniel Bomberg","Joshua Solomon Soncino","Hebrew incunabula","tzurat ha-daf"]
---


The primary historian of Hebrew Talmud printing. Two of his peer-adjacent
academic-journal articles — "Designing the Talmud: The Origins of the Printed
Talmudic Page" (*Tradition* 29:3, 1995) and "Who can discern his errors?..."
(*Ḥakirah* 12, 2011) — anchor the vault's Tier 1 correction of its earlier
Bomberg-layout claim, splitting what had been one conflated claim into
Soncino's layout (1483/84) and Bomberg's pagination (1519/20–23). Matters to
this vault as a named, citable scholar whose own primary research is worth
returning to directly (his monograph *Printing the Talmud*, 1992, is not yet
read) rather than relying on encyclopedia summaries of his findings.

## References
- [[claim-soncino-1483-originated-talmud-gemara-rashi-tosafot-layout]]
- [[claim-bomberg-1520s-venice-talmud-set-standard-page-layout]]
- [[claim-later-talmud-printers-cited-bombergs-venice-pagination-by-name]]