Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible

Title Page......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 2
PROLEGOMENON: The Masoretic Text: A Critical Evaluation......Page 4
PROLEGOMENON: NOTES......Page 41
PREFACE......Page 49
1. The order of the Books......Page 54
2. The sectional divisions of the text......Page 62
3. The Division into Chapters......Page 78
4. Sedarim......Page 85
5. The Annual Pericopes......Page 119
6. The Division into Verses......Page 121
7. The Number of the Words......Page 162
1. Dagesh and Raphe......Page 167
2. The Orthography......Page 190
3. The Division of Words......Page 211
4. The Double or Final letters......Page 216
5. Abbreviations......Page 218
6. Homoeoteleuton......Page 224
7. The Keri and Kethiv......Page 236
8. Sevirin......Page 240
9. The Western and Eastern Recensions......Page 250
10. The Differences between Ben-Asher and Ben-Naphtali......Page 294
11. The Massorah; its Rise and Development......Page 340
No.1 Oriental 4445......Page 523
No.2 The St. Petersburg Codex of A.D. 916......Page 529
No.3 Harley 1528 (British Museum)......Page 531
No.4 Harley 5710-5711 (British Museum)......Page 532
No.5 Harley 5720 (British Museum)......Page 539
No.6 Harley 5774-5775 (British Museum)......Page 548
No.7 Arundel Oriental 2 (British Museum)......Page 550
No.8 Arundel Oriental 16 (British Museum)......Page 554
No.9 King's 1 (British Museum)......Page 566
No.10 Add. 4708 (British Museum)......Page 572
No.11 Add. 9398 (British Museum)......Page 580
No.12 Add. 9399 (British Museum)......Page 587
No.13 Add. 9400 (British Museum)......Page 594
No.14 Add. 9401-9402 (British Museum)......Page 597
No.15 Add. 9403 (British Museum)......Page 603
No.16 Add. 9404 (British Museum)......Page 610
No.17 Add. 9405-9406 (British Museum)......Page 617
No.18 Add. 9407 (British Museum)......Page 619
No.19 Add. 10455 (British Museum)......Page 623
No.20 Add. 14760 (British Museum)......Page 627
No.21 Add. 15250 (British Museum)......Page 636
No.22 Add. 15251 (British Museum)......Page 640
No.23 Add. 15252 (British Museum)......Page 644
No.24 Add. 15282 (British Museum)......Page 652
No.25 Add. 15451 (British Museum)......Page 659
No.26 Add. 19776 (British Museum)......Page 669
No.27 Add. 21160 (British Museum)......Page 681
No.28 Add. 21161 (British Museum)......Page 688
No.29 Oriental 1379 (British Museum)......Page 697
No.30 Oriental 1467 (British Museum)......Page 701
No.31 Oriental 1468 (British Museum)......Page 704
No.32 Oriental 1472 (British Museum)......Page 708
No.33 Oriental 1473 (British Museum)......Page 711
No.34 Oriental 1474 (British Museum)......Page 712
No.35 Oriental 1478 (British Museum)......Page 716
No.36 Oriental 2091 (British Museum)......Page 719
No.37 Oriental 2201 (British Museum)......Page 723
No.38 Oriental 2210 (British Museum)......Page 731
No.39 Oriental 2211 (British Museum)......Page 735
No.40 Oriental 2348 (British Museum)......Page 738
No.41 Oriental 2349 (British Museum)......Page 741
No.42 Oriental 2350 (British Museum)......Page 743
No.43 Oriental 2363 (British Museum)......Page 747
No.44 Oriental 2364 (British Museum)......Page 753
No.45 Oriental 2369 (British Museum)......Page 755
No.46 Oriental 2370 (British Museum)......Page 758
No.47 Oriental 2375 (British Museum)......Page 760
No.48 Oriental 2626-28 (British Museum)......Page 763
No.49 Oriental 2696 (British Museum)......Page 770
No.50 Oriental 4227 (British Museum)......Page 777
No.51 The Earl of Leicester's Codex......Page 784
No.52 G.1......Page 790
No.53 G.2......Page 799
No.54 G.3......Page 803
No.55 G.4......Page 809
No.56 G.5......Page 815
No.57 G.6......Page 818
No.58 Paris, National Library, Codex No.1-3......Page 821
No.59 Madrid, University Library, Codex No.1......Page 827
No.60 Vienna, Imperian and Royal Library, No.4......Page 832
13. History of the Printed Text of the Hebrew Bible......Page 836
No.1 The first edition of the Psalter, 1477......Page 837
No.2 Editio princeps of the Pentateuch, Bologna, 1482......Page 851
No.3 Editio princeps of the Prophets, Soncino, 1485-86......Page 860
No.4 Editio princeps of the Hagiographa, Naples, 1486-87......Page 864
No.5 The second edition of the Pentateuch, Faro, 1487......Page 872
No.6 The editio princeps of the entire Bible, Soncino, 1488......Page 877
No.7 The Pentateuch, Ixar, 1490......Page 888
No.8 The Pentateuch, Lisbon, 1491......Page 893
No.9 Second Edition of the Bible, Naples, 1491-93......Page 904
No.10 Isaiah and Jeremiah, Lisbon, 1492......Page 912
No.11 The Book of Proverbs, Leiria, 1492......Page 916
No.12 The Pentateuch with the Five Megilloth and the Haphtaroth, Brescia, 1492......Page 922
No.13 The third edition of the entire Bible, Brescia, 1494......Page 928
No.14 The Former Prophets with the commentary of Abravanel, Pesaro, 1510-11......Page 937
No.15 The Former Prophets with Kimchi's Commentary, Pesaro, 1511......Page 941
No.16 The Latter Prophets with Kimchi's Commentary, Pesaro, 1515......Page 943
No.17 Psalms, Proverbs, Job and Daniel, Salonica, 1515......Page 946
No.18 The fourth edition of the Bible, Pesaro, 1511-17......Page 952
No.19 Complutensian Polyglot, Alcala, 1514-17......Page 963
No.20 First edition of the Rabbinic Bible, Venice, 1516-17......Page 982
No.21 The first edition of the Bible in quarto by Daniel Bomberg, Venice, 1516-17......Page 1005
No.22 The second quarto edition of the Bible, Bomberg, Venice, 1521......Page 1009
No.23 Second edition of the Rabbinic Bible of the edition princeps of Jacob b. Chayim with the Massorah, Venice, 1524-25......Page 1013
No.24 The Bible, Bomberg, 1525-28......Page 1031
Appendix I. To Part I, chap 2, p.9, &c.......Page 1034
Appendix II. To Part II, chap 10, p.281, &c.......Page 1040
Appendix III. To Part II, chap 11, pp.423-425, &c.......Page 1057
Appendix IV. Specimen of the Revised Notes on the Pentateuch containing the first Parasha = Gen. I1-VI 8.......Page 1058
I. Index of Manuscripts.......Page 1060
II. Index of Printed Editions of the Hebrew Bible.......Page 1063
III. Index of Subjects.......Page 1065
IV. Index of Persons.......Page 1073
V. Index of Principal Texts.......Page 1078
The Massorah Magna on Levit. XI 4-21.......Page 1086
The Massorah Magna on Isaiah. XIV 31 - XVI 2.......Page 1088
Table of Manuscripts Described.......Page 1090
Table of Editions of the Printed Text of Hebrew Bible.......Page 1091