[sword-devel] About Massoretic Text, according to, Jacob ben Chayim and C.D. Ginsburg

[David Haslam]

Hi Teus,

Unlike the several existing digitisations of the Hebrew Bible, the Ginsburg edition retained the use of the RAFE point.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafe?wprov=sfti1)

This is not the only difference compared to the WLC and BSH or BSQ text,
but it is a feature that puts the Ginsburg edition into a class of its own.

Other niqqud differences include how the HOLAM is used.

Being also a scholarly critical text edition, there are more than 4000 footnotes in Tigran’s Ginsburg based text.
It’s evident that Tigran consulted other Hebrew Masoretic MSS besides the Ginsburg.

Converting Tigran’s Tiqwah / TeX encoding to UTF-8 would require the combined expertise of a Biblical Hebrew scholar and a Unicode technical wizard.
It’s not something to be taken on lightly.

Best regards,

David

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On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 13:39, Teus Benschop <teusjannette at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. What does it take to convert the TeX encoding to UTF8?
>
> 2. If there is someone who would be willing to go over the Hebrew text, word by word, and compare it with one of the printed editions of the Ginsburg Hebrew Bible, then we would have an idea about the accuracy of the editing done on this project.
>
> 3. How is the Ginsburg Bible different from, say, the Westminster Hebrew Bible?
> Teus
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