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Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) is known to be the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible. It is widely regarded as a reliable edition of the Hebrew and Aramaic scriptures and is the most widely used original-language edition among scholars.
It is a revision of the third edition of the Biblia Hebraica edited by Rudolf Kittel, the first Bible to be based on the Leningrad Codex. The Leningrad Codex is the oldest complete Hebrew Bible still preserved. It originally appeared in installments, from 1968 to 1976, with the first one-volume edition in 1977; it has since been reprinted many times. The text is a nearly exact copy of the Masoretic Text as recorded in the Leningrad Codex. The Masoretic notes are completely revised.
Included is a foreword in German, English, French, Spanish and Latin as well as an English and German key to the Latin words, abbreviations and other symbols in the critical apparatus.
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) Compact Edition is identical in content to the standard edition (including the critical apparatus in Latin and the foreword in multiple languages); however, its size makes it exceptionally convenient for the student of Hebrew to carry and use. Its portable size in no way compromises the readability of both text and critical apparatus, which retains a bold, clear font.
It is a revision of the third edition of the Biblia Hebraica edited by Rudolf Kittel, the first Bible to be based on the Leningrad Codex. The Leningrad Codex is the oldest complete Hebrew Bible still preserved. It originally appeared in installments, from 1968 to 1976, with the first one-volume edition in 1977; it has since been reprinted many times. The text is a nearly exact copy of the Masoretic Text as recorded in the Leningrad Codex. The Masoretic notes are completely revised.
Included is a foreword in German, English, French, Spanish and Latin as well as an English and German key to the Latin words, abbreviations and other symbols in the critical apparatus.
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) Compact Edition is identical in content to the standard edition (including the critical apparatus in Latin and the foreword in multiple languages); however, its size makes it exceptionally convenient for the student of Hebrew to carry and use. Its portable size in no way compromises the readability of both text and critical apparatus, which retains a bold, clear font.
1574 pages, Hardcover
Published August 28, 1998
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December 23, 2024
I finally finished reading the Hebrew Bible ... in Hebrew! It took me 4.5 years reading ~10 verses per day. The cover is tattered and some pages are bent, but I made it. I feel like I should get some kind of gold sticker or something.
January 26, 2015
I really, really love this book. The typeset, the binding, the apparatus, the everything. And, of course, especially the content - reading the bible in the original just feels right. I just wonder if anyone can ever put it on their "read"-shelf :-)
August 19, 2023
How can I not give the word of God 5 stars? Although I have to admit I am very excited about BHQ coming out. But we wait.
This was a very rewarding read, not only because it is the wordo f God, but also because it made me more intimant with the text. I find now that when I read in English my mind wanders far too much, but the Heberw draws me close to the text. Now I move on to Greek which is going to be far more difficult. My mind does not think in cases.
This was a very rewarding read, not only because it is the wordo f God, but also because it made me more intimant with the text. I find now that when I read in English my mind wanders far too much, but the Heberw draws me close to the text. Now I move on to Greek which is going to be far more difficult. My mind does not think in cases.
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I could talk someone’s ear off about this book. (actually, i think i almost did once)
I could talk someone’s ear off about this book. (actually, i think i almost did once)
August 16, 2012
NOTE: These comments are about this specific edition (BHS), not the Hebrew Bible itself.
The Hebrew font is great, but everything else is terrible in the BHS. The critical notes are really substandard. Editors often make editorial changes in the critical apparatus without giving any textual reason for doing so. Only rarely does the BHS point out a specific Greek text, usually just referring to the Septuagint (LXX) as though there is just one Greek Old Testament out there, "The" Septuagint (that's NOT the case!). I could keep going, but the basic problem is this: The biblical text is fine, but the critical apparatus (which is what drives the price up 80 bucks) is laughable when compared to (A) Greek New Testaments, (B) critical Latin Bibles, and (C) critical editions of the Septuagint.
I'm a Hebrew Bible guy who's waiting for a better critical text. Maybe the BHQ will be completed in my lifetime!
The Hebrew font is great, but everything else is terrible in the BHS. The critical notes are really substandard. Editors often make editorial changes in the critical apparatus without giving any textual reason for doing so. Only rarely does the BHS point out a specific Greek text, usually just referring to the Septuagint (LXX) as though there is just one Greek Old Testament out there, "The" Septuagint (that's NOT the case!). I could keep going, but the basic problem is this: The biblical text is fine, but the critical apparatus (which is what drives the price up 80 bucks) is laughable when compared to (A) Greek New Testaments, (B) critical Latin Bibles, and (C) critical editions of the Septuagint.
I'm a Hebrew Bible guy who's waiting for a better critical text. Maybe the BHQ will be completed in my lifetime!
January 5, 2022
putting this and the BDB in my "currently reading" and leaving it there for the rest of my life as a little joke
August 19, 2023
Like climbing a mountain!
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