Codex Leningradensis is the oldest complete
Hebrew Bible. Additionally, it is the primary source text for the Hebrew
Bibles used by scholars and which provides the basis of our OT translations. As a Biblical Hebrew professor, I'm delighted to be
able to work through my own copy (facsimile edition) at my leisure, and to use
it in my personal research and teaching. Like others, I'm deeply grateful to Eerdmans and Brill publishers for undertaking this project and making it available. Unfortunately, but understandably,
it is very expensive to acquire a personal copy, so it is relatively inaccessible. However, I encourage all theological
libraries to obtain a copy for use by their faculty and students. To highlight the value of Codex L, I’ve
provided a list of some photo-texts I have worked through with my students (for
the complete list, see here, but these are random
and you'll see a few pics of other things, too).
I'm currently cataloging these photo-texts, along with other related texts, below for my students and others interested in OT studies. Feel free to
peruse these, or if you are interested in receiving daily pic.s (tweets) of
texts gradually working through the OT, with commentary on textual and
paratextual elements, as well interpretations/explanations of the Masorah Parvah,
textual apparatus, and thoughts from key issues related to the ancients
witnesses, see here.
2 Sam 11:1;
(Masorah Parva in right margin)
A. Codex L Carpet Page
B. Isaiah 40:3 (LXX; Codex L; MT Diagrammed; HNT, Mark 1:3; Codex A Mark 1:3);
C. Jonah
E. Ruth
- Ruth 1:1-5
- Ruth 1:6-10a
- Ruth 1:11-16a
- Ruth 1:16-17a
- Ruth 1:17b-20
- Ruth 2:3b-6
- Ruth 2:6-12a
- Ruth 2:15-19
- Ruth 2:20-21a
- Ruth3:1-5a
- Ruth3:11-13a
- Ruth 3:13b-17
- Ruth 3:17b-4:2a
- Ruth4:2b-4
- Ruth 4:5-7a
- Ruth 4:7b-11a
F. Samuel
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