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From: "Dale M. Wheeler" 
Subject: Re: Koren vs BHS text
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James Price wrote:

> I ran a computer collation of the Koren text with the BHS text I have on my
>system [Torah only]. Most of the differfences are due to (a) different uses
>of the Matres Lexiones [vowel letters W and Y]; and (2) Koren's failure to
>use Maqqeph [dash], particularly in a compound name; (3) different spelling
>convention of the pronoun HW) vs HY) [by the way, this latter difference is
>limited to the Torah]. The following is a list of the variants between the
>texts:

You can obviously ignore my immediately prior message; I got so excited
that I sent the response without reading the rest of the digest...oops...

I really appreciate the time you put in sending me that list.

The areas you observed are exactly the the areas I've observed consistently
when comparing BHS/MorphHeb with Even-Shoshan; the issue of the maters has
no doubt led E-S to put maters into his lexeme (or should that be
concordanceme ?) whenever possible, even when the word never occurs with a
mater in the text; BDB, KB2, and KBS are considerably more reluctant to do
that.


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