Resource for different Masoretic text versions
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Hmmm ... Lankford. I think everyone was hoping someone else would answer! Not an easy answer.
The clarifying question, is are you speaking of BHS, BHW, etc found in Logos, or outside Logos?
If inside Logos, then this thread has the best discussion:
https://community.logos.com/forums/p/81118/567832.aspx
Plus your info panel for the respective resources. Don't know of a Logos resource on the Logos versions.
Outside Logos, the problem gets a little more complicated (versions, etc).
Secondly, are you asking differences in the text, or differences in querying, datasets, etc?
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Thanks Denise for the response!! From time to time I hear people make comments like:
1) The KJV is based on the Daniel Bomberg (ben Hayyim) edition of the MT
2) Several Hebrew MSS have this reading while others have this.
I have only heard of two Hebrew MSS, Aleppo and Leningrad.
I guess I was hoping to find a book that discusses the textual criticism of the Old Testament like we have for the New Testament. I would love to know how different the MT is that the KJV uses versus the MT that the ESV, NIV, etc uses. From the link you provided it appears that the different MTs we have today (BH, BHS, BHW, BHQ) are all based on Leningrad. The only surface text differences would be based on when to change L because of an obvious error. If that is true, how many surface text differences are we talking about between the MTs, 10, 100, 1000, etc?
Once again, thanks for taking the time to respond.
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Oh ... that's a little easier problem.
The best I know of, that is both readable and decent depth for you, is Tov's 'Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible'. He also has one for the LXX. And one on textual history. Tov deals with the MSS's ... not the translations. Neither is in Logos ... Amazon.
The english translations are a different problem. You're lucky if the translations say what their working off of. Most remain mum-ish, though some you can surmise which they're using for a given passage.
Hopefully someone else can speak to the KJV base.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Once again, thank you Denise. I just ordered Tov's book.
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