C. SEfrENTEEyTB C£JVr(7ijr.— Fifth Rabbinical Bible, Venice, 1617-1619 ; sixth, Basel, 1618-1619, re\'ised and edited by J. Buxtorf the elder ; un- fortunately, he altered the vowel points in the Targums according to the Aram, portions of Daniel and Ezra. II The Paris Polyglot, printed at the expense of the Paris barrister, Guy Michel le Jay, 1629-1645, folio [OT vols, i.-iv.]. || Much better, and indeed the best of all the Polyglot Bibles, are the Biblia sacra pohjglotta, ed. Brian Walton, London, 1657, folio [OT vols, i.-iv.]. || The basis of nearly all the newer editions are the Biblia Hebraica . . . lemnuitibus Latinis illustrata k J. Leusden, Amsterdam, 1667, publisher Athias. || Biblia He- braica ... ex recensione D. E. Jablonski, Berlin, 1699. The latter follows Leusden's edition, but has collated also other edd. and some MSS. In the Preface he states that he has found and cor- rected more than 2000 errata in the Bible of 1667.
D. ElGHTEENTU CEXTURr.— Biblia Hebraica . . . recensita . . . ab Everardo van der Hooght, Arastel.Tdami et Ultrajecti, 1705. This OT ia very often extolled as the best octavo ed. of the Bible, but without sufficient reason. The ed. of the Biblia Hebraica, Amstelaedami, 1725, pub. by Salomo ben Joseph Props, is far superior. || Scventli Rabbinical Bible : r:vD niVnp lEO, ])ub. by Moses of Frankfort, Amsterdam, 1724-1727, folio, 4 vols. || J. H. Michaelis, Biblia Hebraica, ex alvjuot manu- scriptis et compluribus im^ressis codicibus, item vutsora . . . diligenter recensita. Accedunt loca scrip- tvrm parallela . . . brevesque adnotationes, Halle, 1720. This is the first printed attempt at a critical edition. The Erfurt MSS collated by Michaelis are now m Berlin. || The Mantua Bible, 1742-1744,
* The division of the books of the Bible into chapters was tbs device of Stephen Langton of Canterbury (120S A.D.), who intra duced it in the Vulgate.
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4°, pub. by Raphael Cliayim Basila, contains ■jMiomo Norzi's nias(8)oreticaJ commentary on tlie OT. II B. Kennieott, Vetus Test. Ilcb. cum vnrii'.- Uctionibiis, Oxford, 1776, 1780, folio, 2 vols., ^'ives the text of van der liooght, without the vowel points and accents. Tlie MSS are for the most part verj' perfunctorily collated (cf. Bruns' ed. of the Dis.iertatio Generalis, and see below, ii. J).
E. SlXi:TEEXru CEXTaiiY.—Biblia Flcbraica , . . recensita ab E. van der Hooght. Editio nova emendata a J. D'AlIemand, London, 1S22, and often. II Bibl. ffeb. . . . reeensuit Aug. Hahu, Leipzig, 1S31, and often. II Bibl. Neb. . . . curavit C. G. a. Tlieile, Leipzig, 1849, and often. || [Chris- tian] David Ginsburg, D'pi''° sJip'T "iso nyDiKi o"icy ni-ijni D'£3i'?n cy . . . 3B'n, London, 1894, 2 vols.
V. EDITIONS WITHOUT VOWKL POIXTS AXD ACCEXTS. — Bibl. Ileb. non punctata . . . accuranti- bus Joh. Leusdeno & Joh. Andr. Eisenmengero, Francofurti, 1694, 16°°. II Bibl. Heh. sine punctis, Amstela;darai et Ultrajecti, 1701, 16"°. || nsinn ]ipn iiiip.-n, Pent. ed. S. Haer, Roedelheim, 1866, and often. II Bibl. Sac. Heb. : Pent., Jos., Jud., Ham., Psalmi . . . stTic punctis ediderunt R. Sinker et E. T. Leeke, Cambridge, 1870. || The Psalm.i in Heb., withuut points, Oxford [Clarendon Press].
G. S. BAKU'S EDD. OP SEl'AHATE BOOKS (those issued do%vn to 1890 have prefaces by F. Delitzsch), Leipzig: Genesis, 1869; Jos., Jud., 1891; Sam., 1892; Kings, 1895; Isaiah, 1872; Jer., 1890; Ezekiel, 1884; Minor Proph., 1878; Psalms, 1880; Prov., 1880; Job, 1875; Megilloth, 1885; Dan., Ezr., Neh., 1882; Chron., 1888. Cf. H. Strack in Theol. Litztg. 1379, No. 8, and Ginsburg's criticisms in his Introduction.
H. Critical EDITIOXS.—The Sacred Books of the or : a critical ed. of the Heb. text, printed in colours . . . under the editorial direction of Paul Ilaupt : Leipzig, Baltimore, and London, 4°. The following have aijpeared at the date of this article : Genesis by C. J. Ball, 1896 ; Leviticus by Driver and White, 1894; Numbers by J. A. Paterson, 1900; Joshua by W. H. Bennett, 1895; Judges by G. F. Moore, 1900; Samuel by Budde, 1894; Isaiah by Clieyne, 1899; Jeremiah by Cornill, 1895; Ezekiel by Toy, 1900 ; Ps.-ilms by J. Wellhausen, 1895 ; Proverbs by A. Miiller and E. Kautzsch, 1901; Job by C. Siegfried, 1893; Daniel by A. Kamphausen, 1896 ; Ezra-Neheniiah by H. Guthe and L. W. Batten, 1901; Chronicles by R. Kittel, 1895.
A critical edition of the Aramaic portions of the OT is given by the present writer in his Grammatik des Bibli-ich- Aramiiisrhen', Leipzig, 1901 (Dn 3u-»-»-M i^'-T also with supralinear punctuation).
LiTiRATURi. — Joh. Chr. WoK, Bibtwtheca Bebrcea, Hambuts, U. (IVJl) pp. 30-1-385 (on whole Uible), 386-413 (on parts), Iv. (17:i:i) pp. I(i*-123 (Bible), 123-164 (parts); II Jac. le iMag, Bildiollteca tacra . . . continuata ab A. O. Masch, Halle, i. (1778) pp. 1-180; 1 J. B. de Rossi, AniuiUe iKbraa ■ typo- graphici sec. AT., Panna, 1795, Annates hebrceo-lypfgr. ab anno MI)I ad MDXL diOi-M, Panna, 1790, De ignotvt nonnullu antiquijm.mis hebraici UxttiK fdilionibits ac crilieo earutn turn, Krlanircn, 1782 ; B. W. I). Schulzc, VulUUindu/en Kritik iiber die yi-wvhnlichen Axugaben der heb. Uibel, tuhtt. . . . Xachricht Vim der Ueb. liibel, wrlche der gel. D. Luther bey seiner i'ber- selzumj qebrnueht, Berlin, 1706; I M. Sk-inschncider, Cata- Iwftu tibrt/rum /lebraorum in bildiotheca Hfidteiana, Berlin, 1862(1., cols. 1-164 ; II B. Piclc, ' History ol the printed editions o( the OT' In Uebraica, \x. (1892-1803), pp. 47-110: II Ch. D. GinsbiirK, Introd. to the masnoretico-critical ed. oj the Ilfb. Bilile, London, 1897, pp. 779-970 (describes 84 early printed edd. of the whole OT or of parts of it).