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  • From: "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Excess consonants in the WLC Torah.
  • Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:18:14 -0400


A computerized count of the number of consonants in the normal + kethib sections of the Torah books of the WLC Tanach is 304,848. The Koren edition of the Torah (Torah, Nevi'im, uKetuvim [Jerusalem: Koren, 1962]) has 304,805 consonants (see "The Bible 'Codes': A Textual Perspective, Jeffrey H Tigay, University of Pennsylvania, October 13, 1999 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtigay/codetext.html , reference 5. ). Thus the Koren edition has 43 fewer consonants than the WLC. (A 0.01441% difference.)

Do differences of this level (43 out of 305848) seem plausible? Is there an accepted explanation?

A collection of statistics from the WLC are available at:

http://www.cvkimball.com/Tanach/Lists/Counts.xml .

If you don't understand a given statistic or would like another statistic, please advise.











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