SUGGESTION: find or commission guides for how to use the various apparatuses

MJ. Smith
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

Wonneberger, Reinhard. Understanding BHS: A Manual for the Users of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 2nd rev. ed. Vol. 8. Subsidia Biblica. Roma: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1990. is a very useful resource for users outside seminaries trying to teach themselves how to use their resources. However, not all of us get deeply into Hebrew before Greek or Latin (confession: I'd get into Gothic, Old Church Slavonic and Tokharian before Hebrew). It would be very useful to have similar resources for SBLGNT and LXX SESB and other apparatuses within Verbum. So useful that on the principle "you sold it to me, show me how to use it" I would suggest that if they do not exist you commission some poor starving seminarian to write them.

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