Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Henry Churchyard <churchyh AT ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>]

> From: "Ronald H. Stewart, Sr." <cpaman4 AT juno.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 0:0:13

> I recently purchased "BibleCodes Plus 99" from Computronics.  They
> use as their Hebrew Text the "Koren Text" and not the "BHS Text"
> according to their manual.  In the manual it mentions over a hundred
> differences between their text and the "BHS" text just in the Torah.
> Would anyone on this list know where to obtain a collation giving
> all the differences between these texts for the whole Tanakh?

Don't know anything about the Koren edition specifically, but I bet
that most of the differences between it and B19a/BHS/CCAT, as far as
the basic consonantal text goes, are in the use of waw and yod as
_matres lectionis_ (i.e. to help write vowel sounds) -- since that"s
generally where most of the variability in basic consonant letters
between different manuscripts and editions is.

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