Tanakh - Editions

Editions

• The first ever printed Hebrew Chumash simply had Biblical text with Rashi on the page, and since then many editions have appeared.
• The first Masoretic Mikraot Gedolot was printed in 1524-1525 in Venice, edited by Daniel Bomberg.
• The Soncino edition was printed in 1527 in Venice.
• Many editions of Mikraot Gedolot have been made since then.
• Rudolf Kittel's Biblia Hebraica appeared in 1906 and was reprinted in 1913.
• The Leningrad Codex was edited under Paul E. Kahle as the Biblia Hebraica (BHK), published in Stuttgart, in 1937. The codex was also used for Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) in 1977, and will be used for Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ).
  The Leningrad Codex lists a different order for the books of the Ketuvim.

The Leningrad Codex also served as the basis for two important Jewish editions of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh):

• Aharon Dotan's edition, which was reprinted with a concise commentary and distributed to soldiers in mass quantities as the official Tanakh of the Israel Defense Forces throughout the 1990s. This has recently been updated as the Codex Leningradensis.
• The Koren Tanakh (Bible) was the first edition in nearly 500 years to be designed, edited, printed, and bound by Jews. It was published by Koren Publishers Jerusalem, under the direction of renowned typographer Eliyahu Koren, using his specially designed Koren Bible Type, (Jerusalem, 1962).
• Mesorah Publications מקראות גדלות, (Jerusalem, 1996)
• The JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh (Philadelphia, 1999)
• The Aleppo Codex was edited by Mordechai Breuer in 1977-1982, the first edition to include a reconstruction of the letters, vowels, and cantillation marks in the missing parts of the Aleppo Codex, in 1996-8 re-edited with inclusion of new information on the parashah divisions.
• Jerusalem Crown: The Bible of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000. Edited according to the method of Mordechai Breuer under the supervision of Yosef Ofer, with additional proofreading and refinements since the Horev edition.
• Jerusalem Simanim Institute, Feldheim Publishers, 2004 (published in one-volume and three-volume editions).
• Hebrew University Bible Project (so far on Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel) includes four apparatuses, as well as the masoretic notes of the Aleppo Codex.
• Mikraot Gedolot Haketer, Bar-Ilan University (1992–present). A multi-volume critical edition of the Mikraot Gedolot, ten volumes published to date including Genesis (2 vols.), Exodus (one of a two vols so far), Joshua & Judges (1 vol.), Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Psalms (2 vols.). Includes the masoretic notes of the Aleppo Codex and a new commentary on them. Differs from the Breuer reconstruction and presentation for some masoretic details.