Johann Leusden

In 1661, together with the Amsterdam book printer Joseph Athias, he published his Biblia Hebraica, the first edition of the Hebrew Bible with numbered verses.

[1] The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 dismissed Leusden's copious notes to the text as being "of little value".

[2] The 1667 edition was strongly criticized in 1669 by the Protestant Samuel Desmarets, who died in 1673.

Athias answered the charges in a short work whose title begins, Caecus de coloribus.

[2][3] Athias’ pamphlet was a full-blown attack on a senior Christian theologian in the United Provinces of the Netherlands.