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      Diplomatic or eclectic critical editions of the Hebrew Bible? Considering a third alternative

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          Ever since the publication of the third edition of Rudolph Kittel's Biblia Hebraica (BHK3) to the present gradual production of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) so-called editiones criticae minores of the Hebrew Bible are diplomatic editions. The Codex Leningradensis, dating from 1008/9 CE, is used as the base text, and the Biblia Hebraica text editors note significant variants in other Hebrew manuscripts and/or the ancient versions in eclectic fashion in a text-critical apparatus. The Hebrew University Bible Project (HUPB) also publishes a diplomatic text based on the Codex Aleppo but with a more detailed text-critical apparatus. The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (HBCE) follows a different route, traditionally more familiar in the production of critical editions of the Septuagint and New Testament, namely to publish an eclectic edition. The text editors produce a theoretical, reconstructed text of what they regard as the 'correct' reading after careful consideration and weighing of variants in all available textual witnesses. I argue that critical editions of the Hebrew at the disposal of Hebrew Bible scholars, whether based on a diplomatic or eclectic text, have two inherent weaknesses, namely eclecticism and lack of context. Taken together, these shortcomings might be classified as subjectivism. I propose at least considering the alternative of a synoptic text-critical approach beyond the diplomatic-eclectic dichotomy. CONTRIBUTION: This research critically reviews the current diplomatic/eclectic approaches in the production of scholarly Hebrew Bibles and proposes at least considering a third alternative, namely a synoptic approach

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                Journal
                hts
                HTS Theological Studies
                Herv. teol. stud.
                University of Pretoria (Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa )
                0259-9422
                2072-8050
                2022
                : 78
                : 1
                : 1-7
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                [01] Pretoria orgnameUniversity of Pretoria orgdiv1Faculty of Humanities orgdiv2Department of Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures South Africa
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                S0259-94222022000100074 S0259-9422(22)07800100074
                10.4102/hts.v78i1.7813
                19baada3-af52-41b9-9a50-c9a03a0a65c9

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 04 June 2022
                : 10 August 2022
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                Biblia Hebraica Quinta,textual criticism,Masoretic Text,diplomatic edition,eclectic edition,Synoptic edition,text-critical apparatus,Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,Hebrew University Bible Project,Hebrew Bible,A Critical Edition

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