OT Westminster Leningrad Codex (codex - 2)

Hebrew (hbo)

This text began as an electronic transcription by Whitaker and Parunak of the 1983 printed edition of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS). The transcription is called the Michigan-Claremont electronic text and was archived at the Oxford Text Archive (OTA) in 1987. Since that time, the text has been modified to conform to the photo-facsimile of the Leningrad Codex, Firkovich B19A, residing at the Russian National Library, St. Petersberg; hence the change of name. This version contains all 6 of the textual elements of the OTA document: consonants, vowels, cantillation marks, "paragraph" (pe, samekh) markers, and ketiv-qere variants. Morphological divisions have been added.

The BHS so-called "paragraph" markers (pe and samekh) do not actually occur in the Leningrad Codex. The editors of BHS use them to indicate open space deliberately left blank by the scribe. Pe ("open" paragraph) represents a space between verses, where the new verse begins on a new column line. This represents a major section of the text. Samekh ("closed" paragraph) represents a space of less than a line between verses. This is understood to be a subdivision of the corresponding "open" section. Since these markers represent an actual physical feature of the text, they have been retained.

The WLC is maintained by the Westminster Hebrew Institute, Philadelphia, PA (http://whi.wts.edu/WHI). This edition is based on Christopher V. Kimball's edition (http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml), which also adds textual source assignment based in the Pentateuch on the documentary hypothesis.

• Encoding: UTF-8
• Direction: RTL
• LCSH: Bible.Ancient Hebrew
• Distribution Abbreviation: codex

License

Public Domain

Source (OSIS)

http://whi.wts.edu/WHI, http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml

history_1.0

First public version.

history_1.1

Update to newer version (wlc43-20050319) of the WLC from WHI; Bugfixes in the conversion program that caused textual errors (thanks to Chris Kimball); Fixed one footnote text template.

history_1.2

Bugfix for textual errors. Re-added setumot and paraschot, even though their presence in L is not verified, according to Kirk Lowery. Fixed transcription note values. Included morphological segmentation in preliminary markup. Added xml:lang="en" to notes. Update to newer version (wlc-4.4).

history_1.3

Fixed the conf

history_1.4

Corrected internal markup to conform to OSIS 2.1.1 schema, changed About markup to RTF (2008-07-02)

history_1.5

Updated to WLC 4.10 with additions from www.tanach.us, using native versification

history_1.6

Updated source attribution, undid NFC normalization, placed DH identification notes inline, fixed spacing problem (2009-05-26)

history_1.7

Updated to WLC 4.14, corrected some spurious markup (2012-04-14)

history_1.8

Added pe & samekh 'paragraph' marks to text (2012-04-17)

history_1.9

Updated to WLC 4.18 (2013-10-11)

history_1.9.1

(2022-08-20) Change Lang to Hebrew Ancient

history_2.0

(2022-09-17) Updated to WLC 20220916. Solves MOD-287, MOD-288: maqaf punctuation is no more followed by a space, MOD-303: Spurious notes entries removed.