Ben Denckla

You can see 2nd Venice MG "leak through" frequently in BHS, where BHS matches 2nd Venice MG in clear contradiction of the contents of the LC. (Unlike this case, in which nothing is clear, even though the text is well preserved and we have a good image.)

I'd guess it was the latter: they probably just let the default of BHS propagate to BHQ. As to where BHS got this דגש from, I suspect it was from consensus (which for them meant 2nd Venice MG), not from inspection of the (lower quality) images of the LC they had access to.

I don't know whether BHQ arrived at this transcription (with דגש) on purpose or by accident. Did the editors scrutinize the LC image carefully and decide that there was just (barely) enough evidence of דגש? Or did they simply ignore the LC entirely, supplying the consensus pointing, which has דגש?

It is interesting to see a big set of words across multiple Tiberian-style manuscripts. Such a set of 160 words is a by-product of my sprawling critique of BHQ Job: bdenckla.github.io/book-of-job/ #BiblicalHebrew

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Wouldn't it be nice for the computer to be able to zoom you in on where a word probably is in the Aleppo Codex? I can now do that for any word in the 24 pages of Job, because I painstakingly added some annotations to MAM describing the physical layout of each page. For example:

It may come as a surprise to some that BHQ Job does not include, at its core, a modern scholarly edition of the Masoretic Text. See my review: bdenckla.github.io/book-of-job/...

WLC considered harmful WLC Considered Harmful Introduction In recent decades, a common way to make a Hebrew Bible (or some subset of it) has been to take some version of WLC and edit, at great expense, from there. I know th...

WLC Considered Harmful (a review of A Hebrew Reader for the Pentateuch): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Other rants/reviews by me: github.com/bdenckla/doc...

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Now DAGESH HAZAQ MUDGASH is provisionally assigned and SHEVA NA MUDGASH is approved for publication in Version 18.0 (of The Unicode Standard).

Chabad has the weirdest and possibly the worst Tanakh on the web. See my review: bdenckla.github.io/MAM-with-doc....

Also see other things I've written: github.com/bdenckla/doc...

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Review of Mitchell's "The Songs of Ascents" This is a review of The Songs of Ascents: Psalms 120 to 134 in the Worship of Jerusalem’s Temples by David C. Mitchell. I can only review with some authority the following parts of this book: Chapte...

What parts of the consensus understanding of the poetic cantillation system are rejected by David C. Mitchell, in his version of Haïk-Vantoura's system? I answer this question in this review of Mitchell's book, The Songs of Ascents: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #CriticalBible

Review of "Textual Variants … B19a …" Review of “Textual Variants … B19a …” Introduction This document reviews the following article by Edson de Faria Francisco: Textual Variants between the Leningrad Codex B19a and Other Masoretic Source...

In researching Tiberian Masoretic manuscripts like the Leningrad Codex, which sources are over-appreciated, and which are under-appreciated? I lay out my take on these questions in the course of my review of one particular article: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #CriticalBible

Proposals submitted to UTC SEWG or directly to UTC Regarding the name “Heavy Sheva” Re-documenting ZARQA and ZINOR Adding dagesh xazaq to Hebrew

If you're interested in #BiblicalHebrew Unicode, check out three proposals I recently made either directly to the UTC or to the UTC SEWG, concerning sheva na; dagesh ḥazaq; and zarqa/tsinor and tsinorit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Dirshuni A unique compilation of contemporary women’s midrashim.  Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, whic...

I was not aware of even volume 1, much less a second. Thanks for highlighting this. I enjoyed the "Dirshuni" collection of midrash, which seems related: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo..., www.sefaria.org/Dirshuni_I?t...

ChatGPT A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

I asked GPT 3.5 a form of this question and it stroked my human ego by totally biffing it. Maybe if I paid for 4.0 ... chat.openai.com/share/6908e5...

The 39 verses can be seen here, under "many-flett": bdenckla.github.io/MAM-with-doc...

Ps10:18 is 1 of 39 verses I find that uses all 5 final forms:

לִשְׁפֹּ֥ט יָת֗וֹם וָ֫דָ֥ךְ בַּל־יוֹסִ֥יף ע֑וֹד לַעֲרֹ֥ץ אֱ֝נ֗וֹשׁ מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

But I don't (yet) know the answer to your question as to what is the verse (or verses) with the highest number of final forms (counting repeats, I guess you mean?)

Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – Part 4: Atnaḥ hafukh

If the Tiberian Masoretes are your heroes, and BHS is your villain, this article is for you😉:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – part 3 – WLC’s extra verses in Joshua

Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – part 3 – WLC’s extra verses in Joshua: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – part 2 – Saying the quiet part out loud

Fans of Masorah notes may enjoy my new article, "Saying the quiet part out loud", which is part 2 of what I hope will be an ongoing series called "Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes". docs.google.com/document/d/1... #BiblicalHebrew

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