BHS aids: Understanding BHS by Wonneberger vs. The Masorah of BHS by Mynatt, Crawford & Kelley

How does

1. Understanding BHS by Wonneberger, Reinhard Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico | 1990

http://www.logos.com/product/2927/understanding-bhs

compare to

2. The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia by Mynatt, Daniel, Crawford, Timothy, Kelley, Page H. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | 1998

http://www.logos.com/product/3805/the-masorah-of-biblia-hebraica-stuttgartensia

I have the first but not the second.

What would I gain by getting 2.?

Thanks!

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DMB

The second resource's primary value is in the glossary connected to the index. The index lists the impacted OT verses in book sequence, which in-turn each references the glossary with a discussion of the issue being addressed (see example below). Of course, this resource also discusses in depth the massorah, but I'm presuming you already know most of that type of discussion.

Eric Weiss

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/282963#Comment_282963

Actually my Hebrew is pretty poor. I took a year, but that was in the mid-1990s, and haven't had a formal class since. So I haven't studied the Masorah.

Do any of the BHS editions in Logos have the BHS margin and bottom notes (Masorah, I assume)? If not, then it seems one still has to have a hardcopy book in hand to use this resource, correct?

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/282967#Comment_282967

I'm assuming you know about http://www.logos.com/product/5962/bhs-helps-collection which has the Massorah upper/lower. Terminology-wise, I don't know if that is what you're referring to ('margins').

The wiki has a page on the this resource, including instructions on how to link it to the BHS:

http://wiki.logos.com/Resource$3a_Massorah_Gedolah

In my study, I have the BHS linked to the BHS apparatus (from SESB), and then a cited-by window bringing in the massorah. And then when I get really confused, the glossary above discussed is my next go-to. So altogether, I use 4 resources linked up.

If I'm not quite answering your questions, my apologies!

Eric Weiss

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/282968#Comment_282968

An email offer on book 2. was what prompted my question, but it was only for a few dollars' savings, and ISTM my Hebrew has to be quite a bit more advanced than it currently is for me to even need book 2., let alone the resources you link to.

So I'll probably forgo the offer until I have re-achieved at least post-first-year Hebrew proficiency, if not more.

Thanks for your helpful information!

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/282973#Comment_282973

Well, if per chance you get time and want to dig around in the area of massorah, the book you got the offer on will allow you to learn without having to really spend some serious time (I'm referring to the glossary portion of the book).

I did learn something from this thread; I tried playing around to see what could be hooked to the glossary. Apparently nothing (page indexed).

But as luck would have it (as is ALWAYS true with Logos), using the Cited-By hooked to the glossary-book, and then linking the cited-by to the BHS, gives a mouse-over explanation to the massorah groups (along with the literal massorah themselves). Now THAT is just peachy!

Thank you!!