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Understanding BHS: A Manual for the Users of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia is unavailable, but you can change that!

Understanding BHS is designed as a manual to be used in conjunction with the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS). This elucidating volume is dedicated to a number of goals. Firstly, it seeks to enable beginners to gain access to the language of the text apparatus of BHS and to the Masoretic apparatus as well. Secondly, it documents the apparatus language of BHS in its entirety, providing...

1. Recognizing Marked Words עַתָּה Words treated in the Masoretic apparatus are indicated in the text by a small circle called “circellus” (°). Phrases are marked according to special rules (see below “The Masoretic Reference System”). 2. Finding the Entry 5כֹהֹ ר״פ The marginal entries are separated by a point. The order of these entries corresponds to that of the words marked in the text by a small circle and, as we are dealing with Hebrew, both are read from right to left. 3. Deciphering the Numerical
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