Reader's Hebrew Bible and BibleWorks

[SCSaunders]

Thanks SC. I've heard of Lon Solomon (He's one of our boys too! ) I know people in his church.

Very cool!

[ingosorke]

The Hebrew-Greek Combo will be a great resource; I just hope they fix the Greek font by making it more readable.

Ingo

[ISalzman]

The combined version of the NT and OT is to be released some April 2010:

Does anybody know if this resource comes with or will come with the critical apparati for both the Old and New Testaments?

[SCSaunders]

Does anybody know if this resource comes with or will come with the critical apparati for both the Old and New Testaments?

The prior versions did not.

My guess, the math goes something like: combine the two existing versions = sans critical apparati

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After thought/guess (take this with a quarry of salt) - the purpose of this resource, per the title, is to read. The bottom of each page in this reader's bible is filled with lexical aids for reading. From a layout perspective, I don't think (JMHO, quarry of salt), there's enough room to accomplish two goals - reading and textual criticism. Personally, I favor the former goal. The way I see it is that I will now have both language texts in one volume, with lexical helps at the bottom of each page to assist my reading of the text. I will no longer need a reader's lexicon. I won't have to fire up a computer to access BW8 each and every time. Personally, I see this as a major benefit.

[ISalzman]

The prior versions did not.

My guess, the math goes something like: combine the two existing versions = sans critical apparati

Edit~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After thought/guess (take this with a quarry of salt) - the purpose of this resource, per the title, is to read. The bottom of each page in this reader's bible is filled with lexical aids for reading. From a layout perspective, I don't think (JMHO, quarry of salt), there's enough room to accomplish two goals - reading and textual criticism. Personally, I favor the former goal. The way I see it is that I will now have both language texts in one volume, with lexical helps at the bottom of each page to assist my reading of the text. I will no longer need a reader's lexicon. I won't have to fire up a computer to access BW8 each and every time. Personally, I see this as a major benefit.

I understand. It's hard to get everything one would want into one volume. Thanks SC.

[bkMitchell]

You might be interested to know, though the article doesn't say it, Yaakov ben Chayim became a believer in the Messiah later in his life.

Yes, Elijah Levita in 1538 in his, Massoreth Ha-massoreth (link) noted with a very disrespectful remark(curse) that Yaakov Ben Hayyim had converted to Christianity and thus become a meshumad(apostate).

אכן המסורת המארבע ועשרים הנדפסות הנה לא ראיתי כהנה בכל ספרי הקדמונים מסודרים ומתוקנים ביופי ובה ובהדור ובטוב הדור סדרם אחד מהנבונים היה שמו לפנים בישראל נקרא יעקב תהי נשמתו צרורה בצרור נקוב

"as to the Massorah, in the twenty-four sacred books printed here, I have not seen anything like it, among all the ancient books, for arrangement and correctness, for beauty and excellence, and for good order. They were by one of the learned, whose name was formerly Jacob (let his soul be bound up in a bag with holes)."pg 94 of Ginsburg's translation.

[ISalzman]

Yes, Elijah Levita in 1538 in his, Massoreth Ha-massoreth (link) noted with a very disrespectful remark(curse) that Yaakov Ben Hayyim had converted to Christianity and thus become a meshumad(apostate).

אכן המסורת המארבע ועשרים הנדפסות הנה לא ראיתי כהנה בכל ספרי הקדמונים מסודרים ומתוקנים ביופי ובה ובהדור ובטוב הדור סדרם אחד מהנבונים היה שמו לפנים בישראל נקרא יעקב תהי נשמתו צרורה בצרור נקוב

"as to the Massorah, in the twenty-four sacred books printed here, I have not seen anything like it, among all the ancient books, for arrangement and correctness, for beauty and excellence, and for good order. They were by one of the learned, whose name was formerly Jacob (let his soul be bound up in a bag with holes)."pg 94 of Ginsburg's translation.

Wow, thanks for the interesting quote. The beauty of it all was that here was a man - Yaakov ben Chayim - who handled the text of the Hebrew Scriptures and had a proficiency with them almost unrivaled by most of his peers who could not escape the Messianic claims of Jesus and eventually submitted to them. Ben Chayim's text served as the basis of the rabbinic bible into the 20th century. Amazing, huh?

[bkMitchell]

On, Philip Brown's blog; Exegetical thoughts and Biblical theology
on Wednesday January 23, 2008 he post (link)
in some detail about typesetting the 1st edition of the Readers Hebrew Bible.
(post includes a few good pictures of it too).

[Michael Hanel]

On, Philip Brown's blog; Exegetical thoughts and Biblical theology
on Wednesday January 23, 2008 he post (link)
in some detail about typesetting the 1st edition of the Readers Hebrew Bible.
(post includes a few good pictures of it too).

Thanks for this post. I had never seen it before, but it is very interesting. It's amazing what people will do for a labor of love. I certainly know Philip isn't going to be compensated anywhere close to what is reasonable based on the amount of hours of work this must have taken. (kind of reminds me how many hours Glenn (and others?) must have spent looking at the Church Fathers module which didn't necessarily amount to any more money from paying customers, but still added value and function to what we already had)

[Adelphos]

Thanks for this post. I had never seen it before, but it is very interesting. It's amazing what people will do for a labor of love. I certainly know Philip isn't going to be compensated anywhere close to what is reasonable based on the amount of hours of work this must have taken. (kind of reminds me how many hours Glenn (and others?) must have spent looking at the Church Fathers module which didn't necessarily amount to any more money from paying customers, but still added value and function to what we already had)

In my mind, Glenn's work was nothing short of heroic. They couldn't have paid me enough to do it.