Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Justin Savino" <dojustly AT ev1.net>]

Greetings,

    I am new on the list. My name is Justin Savino and a Seminary student who 
is in love with Hebrew. I would love to know, from anyone who knows first 
hand or who can point me to a resource, what the major variant readings are 
amongst the versions. Apart from vowel differences, plene and defective 
spellings, and other unessential spelling alterations what are the major 
variants amongst the manuscripts? Particularly I am interested in the major 
variant readings between the three major texts that underlie the modern 
protestant Bible, (Biblia Hebriaca Strugartensia, 2nd Great Rabbinic Bible- 
Ben Chayyim text, and 1494 Brescia Soncino Bible that Luther used). So far 
painstakingly combing the textual apparatus of BHS and Ginsburg's massive 
work have yielded have yielded a few interesting changes. One interesting one 
is Exodus 5:22 is the difference in the word for Lord in the opening address 
of Moses to God. Luther's version follows the 1494 Breccias Soncino bibles in 
making it the sacred name of God translating it "HERR" while the KJV and 
modern translations following BHS and the Bomberg Bible make the lowercase 
word "Lord" following the word "adonai."
This stuff fascinates me and will be the subject of a paper I am writing so 
any input would be valuable. Robert Dick Wilson says that there are 150,000 
consonant differences in the Massoretic text families. If someone could clue 
me into how one can get a look at those differences that would save me a 
whole lot of time. NO need to re-invent the wheel.

Thank you for your time and consideration. 


Justin Savino
wymxr wlk-al yk wnmt-al yk hwhy ydox

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Hi, Justin ---

I purchased a 4-volume reprint of De Rossi's Variae Lectiones Veteris
Testamenti a few years ago from a used book dealer.  It should be available 
through
interlibrary loan. I'm afraid my set doesn't have any additional information
(such as the name of the publisher who reprinted it), but I believe I found it
for sale on abebooks.com.  Hope this helps.

Regards,
Marjorie Alley

>>> I am new on the list. My name is Justin Savino and a Seminary student who
is in love with Hebrew. I would love to know, from anyone who knows first
hand or who can point me to a resource, what the major variant readings are
amongst the versions. Apart from vowel differences, plene and defective 
spellings,
and other unessential spelling alterations what are the major variants amongst
the manuscripts? Particularly I am interested in the major variant readings
between the three major texts that underlie the modern protestant Bible,
(Biblia Hebriaca Strugartensia, 2nd Great Rabbinic Bible- Ben Chayyim text, 
and 1494
Brescia Soncino Bible that Luther used). So far painstakingly combing the
textual apparatus of BHS and Ginsburg's massive work have yielded have 
yielded a
few interesting changes. One interesting one is Exodus 5:22 is the difference
in the word for Lord in the opening address of Moses to God. Luther's version
follows the 1494 Breccias Soncino bibles in making it the sacred name of God
translating it "HERR" while the KJV and modern translations following BHS and
the Bomberg Bible make the lowercase word "Lord" following the word "adonai."
This stuff fascinates me and will be the subject of a paper I am writing so
any input would be valuable. Robert Dick Wilson says that there are 150,000
consonant differences in the Massoretic text families. If someone could clue 
me
into how one can get a look at those differences that would save me a whole 
lot
of time. NO need to re-invent the wheel. <<<