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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Versification of the Westminister Leningrad Codex
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:44 +0100

On 18/09/2005 02:26, Christopher V. Kimball wrote:

(In fact you really wrote in July not September, please correct your computer's clock)

The versification of the Tanach is considered in a new page at

http://www.cvkimball.com/Tanach/Lists/Verses.xml .


I consider the words "The current versification of the Tanach into chapters and verses is later than the Leningrad Codex" to be misleading. The division into verses is not later than L, in fact it is clearly marked in L by sof pasuq etc. It is the division into chapters which is later than L. And of course the numbering scheme is later than L because it is dependent on the chapter divisions.

In fact there are some places e.g. the start of Isaiah 64 where the chapter division was put in the middle of a verse as defined by sof pasuq. This has led to some confusion in numbering schemes. And there are a significant number of other anomalies in the numbering, and differences between Hebrew and English numbering. See http://www.qaya.org/academic/bibletranslation/Eng-Rus-Heb%20Verse%20Numbers.zip for some more details.

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Peter Kirk
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