Adrian Schenker – författare

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) is known to be the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible. It is widely regarded as a reliable edition of the Hebrew and Aramaic scriptures and is still the most widely used original-language edition among scholars.

For the first time, the text of the BHS is offered here in a particularly reader-friendly edition. The text-critical apparatus is replaced by a dense network of reading and translation aids at the bottom of each page.

The BHS Reader’s Edition at a glance:

Complete text of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, checked against the Leningrad CodexAll words that occur fewer than 70 times are parsed and contextually definedAll weak verb forms are parsedA glossary lists words occurring more than 70 timesImproved layout of poetic textHigh quality paper does not bleed through

About the editors:

Donald R. Vance received his philological training at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and teaches Biblical Hebrew at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.George Athas teaches Old Testament at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia.Yael Avrahami heads the Department of Biblical Studies at Oranim Academic College in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.

The books of Samuel are a key link in the history of the biblical text in so much as they are found at a crossroad where different textual traditions encounter each other (MT, LXX, Qumran). Recent research tends to consider that the textual criticism has to take into account the literary aspects which characterise the most ancient transmission of the text. This assessment asks a variety of new exegetical questions considered in this volume: Does the comparative analysis of the textual witnesses permit proving the existence of distinct literary editions? Which are the criteria to deem the literary nature of the variants? Which ideological and theological motives governed the modifications of a previous text? Is it possible to establish a relative chronology between the putative editions?The study of the most ancient history of the text opens an archeology of the monument that are the books of Samuel. The search for their ancient foundations and the bringing to light of later modifications, the consideration both of the restorations and of the ruins of the textual edifice all throw new light on the final construct and its theological significance.