From: "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
Cc:
Subject: [b-hebrew] Excess consonants in the WLC Torah.
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:18:14 -0400
A computerized count of the number of consonants in the normal + kethib
sections of the Torah books of the WLC Tanach is 304,848. The Koren
edition of the Torah (Torah, Nevi'im, uKetuvim [Jerusalem: Koren, 1962])
has 304,805 consonants (see "The Bible 'Codes': A Textual Perspective,
Jeffrey H Tigay, University of Pennsylvania, October 13, 1999
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtigay/codetext.html , reference 5. ). Thus
the Koren edition has 43 fewer consonants than the WLC. (A 0.01441%
difference.)
Do differences of this level (43 out of 305848) seem plausible? Is
there an accepted explanation?
A collection of statistics from the WLC are available at: