This dissertation examines all of the sub loco notes in the Torah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) and provides the sort of analysis and discussion of them that Weil intended to do.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Sub Loco Notes in the Torah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Bibal Dissertation, No 2) (Paperback)
This book deals with an extremely recondite branch of Bible studies, namely possible problems with the massorah of the Torah printed in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgardensis. For those people who understand what this means and are interested, this book is quite valuable. It gives much useful information from a variety of sources, some of which are very difficult to access.Despite the review by Freedman, the fact that it cites the Snaith Bible is not a problem since Mynatt only uses it as an alternative Hebrew bible to BHS and it would not affect his argument if he had used the Letteris Bible.
10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is an embarrassment to the author.,
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This review is from: The Sub Loco Notes in the Torah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Bibal Dissertation, No 2) (Paperback)
It is obvious that the author is totally unfamiliar with this field.
First of all, he uses books which were totally discredited as support for his statements. Norman Henry Snaith, of the British and Foreign Bible Society, wrote a fake Bible in the late 50's. He had claimed to have uncovered the Ben Asher text in the Spanish Codex Or. 2626-28 of the British Museum. Now, this assertion might be true or untrue--the codex is certainly beautiful to behold, and no doubt a careful work of the late 14th century. However, the printed text Snaith produced is merely a reprinting of the Letteris Bible of 1866, with all of the same typos included! This is true despite the fact that Snaith claimed never to have used that Bible in his work.
Miles B. Cohen and I proved this to all, at the meeting of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies in 1971, and we followed that presentation with a lengthy article published by H.U.C.A, volume 45, in 1974. Yet Mynatt uses Snaith as a constant reference for his footnotes in this book. There is no way that a pseudo-epigraph can be used as support for one's speculations.
The current book shows total unfamiliarity with any knowledge of the subject matter. My 11-year old son knew things that Mynatt left open as a puzzle to be solved. For example, while Mynatt scratched his head over what could be another example of a proper noun which is repeated in the Bible (besides cases such as Avraham Avraham, Yaakov Yaakov, and Moshe Moshe), my 11 year old (and my wife) had no problem suggesting YHVH YHVH--a sentence repeated dozens of times during Rosh HaShan and Yom HaKipurim (and recited aloud on any festival or fast day, also).
The questions raised by Mynatt are intriguing, but his answers are usually worthless.
If anyone is interested in Masoretic riddles, then this book might be enjoyable to read. However, as a piece of scholarship it serves no useful purpose. In a more scholarly setting, I could easily answer all of these "problems." For this forum let it s
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This book changed my life.,
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This review is from: The Sub Loco Notes in the Torah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Bibal Dissertation, No 2) (Paperback)
I have never encountered anyone who can tackle BHS, like Daniel Mynatt. Mynatt explains each point well. It undoubtably could be on Oprah's booklist at any point. Anyone who says differently obviously is judging soley based on emotion. It is also known that Mynatt is an amazing professor and dean at Anderson University. He explains Genesis very well in class. Everyone should read this book, and if they don't they are a big doo doo head.
That is enough. Dr. Mynatt is great.
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