Biblia Hebraica Quinta

The Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) is a detailed and up-to-date presentation of the available evidence for the transmission of the text of the Hebrew Bible. It has been reworked from scratch by an international and interdenominational team of scholars. The textual basis of the new edition is the oldest fully preserved manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Codex Leningradensis.Genesis, edited by Abraham Tal (Tel Aviv University), is volume one of the complete BHQ series.At the beginning of each volume, there is a table of accents, a glossary for the Masorah parva, a list of the definitions and abbreviations used to characterize the readings, and a useful sample page that illustrates the features of the layout. Each volume ends with a detailed yet succinct discussion of the textual witnesses for each biblical book that contains a wealth of helpful information, and the manuscripts and critical editions of the texts are clearly annotated.The text-critical apparatus has been completely redesigned in this edition, and the material presented has been greatly expanded. All significant variants from the Qumran texts are now listed in full. For the first time, the edition also contains a detailed commentary section that makes academic work easier. It offers an introduction to each biblical book in which the relevant textual witnesses are characterized and their use in the critical apparatus is explained.Particularly practical: The commentary section not only contains numerous in-depth comments on individual text-critical questions, but also a translation of the large masorah and explanations of the small masorah. Both the text-critical apparatus and the commentary section are written in English.At a glance: The text of the Leningrad Codex, corrected from new color photographs of the codexThe Masorah magna and Masorah parva from the Leningrad CodexA single apparatus with all relevant textual variants at the bottom of the pageAll available pre-Tiberian witnesses for each textual case are notedAt least two other Tiberian codices are collated for each bookThe Qumran and Judean Desert fragments are collatedExtensive commentary Other volumes in the series: 9781683074038 / Vol 3: Leviticus9781598561982 / Vol 5: Deuteronomy9781598563870 / Vol 7: Judges9781598563863 / Vol 13: The Twelve Minor Prophets9783438052766 / Vol 16: Job9781598563092 / Vol 17: Proverbs9781598561821 / Vol 18: General Introduction and Megilloth9781598561838 / Vol 20: Ezra and NehemiahAbraham Tal is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Hebrew Language at Tel-Aviv University; he has also served as a visiting professor at various institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia. For two decades, Tal served as the editor-in-chief of The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, and the chief research project of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. He has authored numerous books and scholarly articles, including a two-volume Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic; a grammar of Samaritan Aramaic; and, with Moshe Florentin, an edited and annotated edition of the Samaritan and Masoretic versions of the Pentateuch.