Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), Publications

There are several publications of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS). While the Hebrew text is always identical, being based on the “Leningrad Codex”, you can choose between publications that include a text-critical apparatus and the complete Masorah Parva for comprehensive scholarly purposes, and a Reader’s Edition that offers numerous reading and translation aids instead.

If you are interested in the Masorah, there is also an introduction and annotated glossary available in German.

Edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph in cooperation with numerous other scholars. Fifth, revised edition 1997 prepared by Adrian Schenker. With text-critical apparatus as well as the complete Masorah Parva by G.E. Weil and references to Weil's edition of the Masorah Magna (published separately). With a foreword in English, German, French, Spanish, and Latin.

With this edition of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, you can easily keep track: a generous margin provides plenty of space on each page for your own notes. This way, you will always find your notes exactly where they belong – right next to the biblical text!

The content of the wide margin edition corresponds to the standard edition.

The content of the compact edition is also the same as that of the standard edition, but it differs in size.

This edition offers the authoritative Hebrew text of the Old Testament in a particularly reader-friendly edition.
The marginal notes of the Masorah Parva as well as the references to the lists of the Masorah Magna are not included in this edition, and instead of the critical apparatus it offers a dense network of reading and translation aids at the bottom of each page: not only is the English meaning provided for every Hebrew word that occurs fewer than seventy times in the entire biblical text, but each word’s precise grammatical form is also clearly identified. In addition, Hebrew words appearing more than seventy times are collected in a glossary, which conveniently serves as a tool for learning the basic vocabulary. With these features, readers can work through the Hebrew text efficiently—without the need for constant reference to external lexicons or grammar books.

This is the first and only scholarly edition of the Masorah of the Hebrew Bible in German. With its extensive annotated glossary it serves both as an accessible introduction and a reliable reference work.