The Biblia Hebraica Accuratissima (Amsterdam: Joseph Athias 1666-67) is a monument in the histories of the Hebrew book and of Jewish-Christian relations. A remarkable example of seventeenth-century cross-confessional collaboration, it was edited by a team of Jewish scholars in Amsterdam and by a Calvinist Professor of Hebrew at the nearby University of Utrecht. The text was set by consulting earlier printed editions, Masoretic treatises and medieval Hebrew manuscripts that belonged to private Jewish libraries in Amsterdam, where the edition was published by the Portuguese-Jewish printer Joseph Athias. The edition came with printed approbations from the Rabbis of Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish Community (including the great Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, the first Rabbi in the New World when he led the Jewish community in Dutch Brazil) as well as theologians from all four universities in the Dutch Republic.

Printed some two centuries after the beginning of Hebrew printing, it seems to be the first edition of the Hebrew Bible to carry the approbation of both Christian and Jewish religious authorities. In the layout of the text itself, two completely different systems of textual division—the chapters and verses of the Christian tradition and verse, paragraph and weekly portion divisions of Jewish tradition—are superimposed. That made the text useful for both liturgical and scholarly purposes, and allowed Jews and Christians engaged in religious apologetics and polemics to efficiently refer to Scripture according to the tradition of the other, deepening a sense of a shared biblical culture.

Famous for its accuracy, the so-called Leusden-Athias Bible remained the model for a very large number of later printings of the Hebrew Biblical text deep into the 19th century, including the first complete Hebrew Bible printed in America, in 1814, by another dynamic duo of Christian-Jewish collaboration, Thomas Dobson and Jonathan Horwitz, in Philadelphia.

One of the copies in the collection of the Library at the Katz Center, which belonged to Leon Gildesgame and before him to the Rev. Patrick Reynolds of Waterhead outside Manchester, has a beautifully hand-painted title page.