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"After forty years Kittel's Biblia Hebraica once again makes its appearance before the learned world in a new form. ... We therefore suggest that the new edition be cited as BHS, as distinguished from BHK."
"There is no need to defend the use of the Leningrad Codex B19A (L) as the basis for an edition of the Hebrew Bible, whatever one may think of its relationship to the Ben Asher text. ... In any event, L is still "the oldest dated manuscript of the complete Hebrew Bible.""
"Not only the loss of the original molds in the bombing of Leipzig, but especially conversion to machine composition has made it necessary to replace the beautiful Hebrew type face of BHK, prepared to Kittel's own specifications, with a new face, adapted to the limitations of machine composition."
"The BHS is in worldwide use today and is esteemed among all denominations as a highly reliable edition of the Hebrew Bible."
"In BHK since the third edition, 𝕸 has represented the text of Ms. B 19A of the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library of St. Petersburg, written in 1008 (L, Leningradensis; pl. 24). The fourth edition of Biblia Hebraica, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph, is also based on the same manuscript."
"The Ezra SIL fonts are the identical typeface to the SIL Ezra font released by SIL in 1997. The font was developed from the beautiful Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia volume which is familiar to many biblical Hebrew scholars."
"Puncta extraordinaria (extraordinary points) occur fifty-six times in the Old Testament text: fifty-three times above letters and three times below letters. The electronic edition of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia text notes that the function of these marks "is not entirely clear ...""