The pocket-book is not a modern invention. Pocket-books, as well as miniature books, have been popular almost since the beginning of printing itself, as the collections of the Library of Congress will attest. The books displayed here are among the smallest Hebrew books in the Library’s collections and they offer the full text of the Hebrew Bible, complete with elegant initial words at the beginning of every book. Here, the Bible is open to the first chapter from the Book of Exodus.