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  • From: "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>
  • To: "Madden, Shawn" <sMadden AT sebts.edu>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Aleppo vs. Leningrad Codex vs. BHS
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:37:16 +0100


At 13:28 24/06/02, Madden, Shawn wrote:

Most good theological libraries will have reproduction copies of both Aleppo & Leningrad.

A caveat: the CBQ review I quoted in my previous posting has this to say on the use of the Leningrad facsimile edition.

>>> The improved readings of the Dotan edition reflect the judgement of the editor. The naive user may find the facsimile of the Leningrad adequate, but in fact the manuscript itself is sometimes " insufficiently clear on account of defacement, spots, lacunae, and fading that have affected it over time, as a result of much handling, or on account of mistakes of the scribe and slips of the pen " (page xi). Further, the photographs are not entirely trustworthy: the Zuckerman photographs, which " penetrate deep under the surface of the parchment and catch the embedded ink " (page xii) sometimes makes a correction to the text recede behind a reading that the scribe rejected. D. provides variant readings in Appendix A; the presence of a variant is signaled in the margin of the text with a small-cap A. <<<





Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
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