… the phonology of the Tiberian vocalization system is not wholly or even mostly anachronistic…. iblical scholars already know that the consonantal text is older than the medieval vocalization system…. Since the accidentals of vocalization and accentuation in L are the product of medieval scribes, our critical text is open to the complaint of anachronism. The copy-text will be L, our oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. Defending this approach, chief editor Ronald Hendel (2016, 31–32) explains: 1Like preceding Biblia Hebraica editions, the forthcoming Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (formerly provisionally entitled The Oxford Hebrew Bible) will have as its base text the Firkovich B19 A Leningrad Codex (= L).
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