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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...

Such counts are intended to protect the text against expansions caused by copyists’ errors such as dittography and against losses caused by haplography, homoioarcton or homoioteleuton (cf. § 50 p. 44). Although these countings do not directly effect text-critical decisions, they do give us an idea of the care with which the texts were transmitted and consequently can warn against too quickly and frivolously assuming scribal errors.
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