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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] looking for Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 05:53:15 -0700

On 02/06/2004 20:48, Bearpecs AT aol.com wrote:

Does anyone know about the following text:

Hebrew (Ginsburg/Delitzsch) Bible
published by the Trinitarian Bible Society
ISBN: 1862281165


I have what appears to be a scan of the TBS Ginsburg Hebrew Bible (not the NT). Here is the preface:

PREFACE TO THE BOMBERG/GINSBURG HEBREW OLD TESTAMENT

In the early years of the 16th century, Jacob ben Chayim, a Jewish Christian, collected as many manuscripts of the Old Testament as he could acquire from around the world and collated them to produce the most complete printed Hebrew Old Testament possible. This volume, published by Daniel Bomberg in 1524-5, became the standard edition of the Hebrew Old Testament. It was the first to present a complete Masorah - the Masoretic notes on the text - and was the second Rabbinic Bible, the only authorised Masoretic recension, becoming in time the 'textus receptus' of the Old Testament. It has been reprinted in numerous editions over the past four hundred years and was used as the bases for the Old Testament for many Reformation-era translations such as the English Authorised Version and the Dutch Statenvertaling, as well as many versions up to the present day.

In the late 19th century, Christian David Ginsburg employed this text as the basis of his edition of the Hebrew Old Testament. It was initially published by the Trinitarian Bible Society in 1894, and was republished in 1998.

PK: Note that this edition does not have the kind of Masora found in the Rabbinic Bible, it is only the Hebrew text plus a few notes.

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