Discord between the Tiberian Written and Reading Traditions: Two Case Studies
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1.0. Introduction Like preceding Biblia Hebraica editions, the forthcoming Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (formerly provisionally entitled The Oxford Hebrew Bible) will have as its base text the Firkovich B19 A Leningrad Codex (= L). Defending this approach, chief editor Ronald Hendel (2016, 31–32) explains: The copy-text will be L, our oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. Since the accidentals of vocalization and accentuation in L are the product of medieval scribes, our critica...