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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...

The textual transmission is presented in BHS and other modern editions in the following manner. A single text is selected as the base text17 and is printed without alteration.18 Other texts are then used to indicate divergencies from the base text. The connection between the base text and the variants is produced by the reference system. For this BHS uses small Latin letters. The BHS system, unlike that of e.g. Rahlfs Septuaginta, marks the appropriate words in the
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