Yesterday A Reader’s Hebrew Bible went on sale at Westminster’s Bookstore. I had been hounding Mark for a while about getting this book in stock (to his defense, it was only published about a week ago) because I have enjoyed using A Reader’s Greek New Testament. I was able to get my hands on one this afternoon and find it extremely helpful.
The text of A Reader’s Hebrew Bible (hereafter RHB) is the exact text of the Leningrad Codex (hereafter L) that is maintained by the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research, which is on the bottom floor of Westminster’s library where I took Aramaic last semester. The text is “virtually identical” with the texts of Biblical Hebraica Stuttgartensia (hereafter BHS) and Biblica Hebraica Quinta (hereafter HBQ). One of the major differences is that RHB does not attempt to deal with or display the textual apparatus. It does, however, include the Kethib (non-pointed) and Qere readings (masoretic pointings) in the text, which are identified by superscripted K before Kethib and superscripted Q before Qere. They also include a raised black circle Read the rest of this entry »
