Thursday, February 6, 2014

The Scholars Hebrew Bible Project


Geniza fragment of Genesis


The Oxford Hebrew Bible 

http://ohb.berkeley.edu/

The Scholars Hebrew Bible will be a new critical edition of the Hebrew Bible featuring a critical text and extensive text-critical introduction and commentary. Each book of the Hebrew Bible will be addressed in a separate volume, with a single volume each for the Minor Prophets, the Megillot, and Ezra-Nehemiah. This project represents a departure from the other major textual editions (the Biblia Hebraica Quinta and the Hebrew University Bible), which are diplomatic editions.   

The project has now changed its name to "The Scholars Hebrew Bible Project." According to Daniel O. McClellan: "many professors at Oxford express concerns with the name, given the fact that not a single professor from Oxford was involved and they broadly disapproved of an eclectic edition. It seems something has now been done about it."

 Some samples of the Scholars Hebrew Bible (in PDF format) can be found here (Genesis 1:1-13; Leviticus 22; Deut 32:1–91 Kgs 11:1–8; 2 Kings 1:1-6; Jeremiah 27:1-10; Ezekiel 2:1-10; and Proverbs 9:1-18)

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