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  • From: "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Leningrad Codex / BHS error-filled?
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:17:47 +0000

At 14:38 18/11/2003, "Christopher V. Kimball" <kimball AT ntplx.net>
wrote:

I've been planning to base my study on the MCW BHS or a descendant of it. Recently,
a correspondent stated that:

(The Leningrad Codex) "..(as BHS is), which is the most error-filled of the ancient manuscripts (it is not even the best manuscript written by its author, who wrote a much better one after he wrote the Leningrad manuscript)."

This is a little disconcerting. Could someone please explain the issue?

There is a list: TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
which you will find at: http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/TC.html

There you will find various articles and reviews which should clear up some matters for you
I recommend:

Aron Dotan, ed., <http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol06/Dotan-ed2001rev.html>Biblia Hebraica Leningradensia: Prepared According to the Vocalization, Accents, and Masora of Aaron ben Moses ben Asher in the Leningrad Codex (Timothy G. Crawford, reviewer)
http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol06/Dotan-ed2001rev.html

[ there is a short review by Kevin Wooodruff on the Journal of Biblical Studies web-site: http://journalofbiblicalstudies.org/ ]

and:

Richard D. Weis, <http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol07/Weis2002.html>Biblia Hebraica Quinta<http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol07/Weis2002.html> and the Making of Critical Editions of the Hebrew Bible
http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol07/Weis2002.html



Maurice A. O'Sullivan
[Bray, Ireland]
mauros AT iol.ie

" Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts " -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan





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