While scribes have transmitted the Hebrew Bible in its
original languages with extraordinary care for millennia, no one copyist
can be expected to have escaped all error. The surviving tradition has
accumulated many points of variation over time, and some of these pose
unavoidable challenges for translation and exegesis. In many other
ancient works, new editions based on a critical assessment of variant
readings have offered valuable insights to interpreters, but readers of
the Hebrew Bible have so far not had this benefit.
The Solid Rock Hebrew Bible aims to remedy this
situation. Based on investigation of various masoretic manuscripts,
ancient manuscripts from the Judean wilderness, the ancient versions,
and other sources, this edition prints the entire Hebrew text (in a
traditional two-column layout and an easy-to-read 13-point font, with
vowel points included for readers' convenience) and includes adjustments
made to the base text (the Leningrad Codex) in over 2,500 places.
Additionally, over 2,000 other adjustments have been made to the
diacritics. Pastors, scholars, translators, and others readers of the
Hebrew Bible will stand to benefit from this work.
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The _Solid Rock Hebrew Bible_ aims to remedy this situation. Based on investigation of various masoretic manuscripts, ancient manuscripts from the Judean wilderness, the ancient versions, and other sources, this edition prints the entire Hebrew text (in a traditional two-column layout and an easy-to-read 13-point font, with vowel points included for readers' convenience) and includes adjustments made to the base text (the Leningrad Codex) in over 2,500 places. Additionally, over 2,000 other adjustments have been made to the diacritics. Pastors, scholars, translators, and others readers of the Hebrew Bible will stand to benefit from this work.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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