Biblia Hebraica Quinta

The Biblia Hebraica Quinta is the fifth version of the Biblia Hebraica and when complete will supersede the fourth version, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS).

Like the third and fourth versions, it uses a text based on the Leningrad Codex; the text has been corrected against colour photographs of the codex taken in the 1990s.

Unlike previous versions, it includes a commentary explaining the Masorah and discussing the significance of the textual variants in the footnotes. It also contains the Masorah magna, which was not in the first three versions and only available in a supplementary volume in BHS. Another change is that it rarely cites variants from Hebrew manuscripts collated by Benjamin Kennicott and C. D. Ginsburg; the editors, following the work of Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, believe that such variants are of little value.

The first volume (general introduction and Five megilloth) was published in 2004. The books are in the same order as in the Leningrad Codex and BHS, namely Ruth, Canticles, Qoheleth, Lamentations and Esther.

The second volume (Ezra and Nehemiah) was published in 2006.

The third volume (Deuteronomy) was published in 2007.

External links

* [http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol07/Weis2002.html Richard D. Weis, "Biblia Hebraica Quinta" and the Making of Critical Editions of the Hebrew Bible", "TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism" 2002] (including sample pages showing edition, apparatuses, and textual commentary for Jeremiah 23:1-9)
*James A. Sanders, [http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/4725_4867.pdf review of the "BHQ" edition of the "Megilloth", "Review of Biblical Literature" 2005]
*(German) Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, [http://www.bibelonline.de/de/products/wissenschaftliche_bibelausgaben/urtexte_altes_testament/hebraeisch.html Wissenschaftliche Bibelausgaben / Urtexte Altes Testament / Hebräisch]