Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) is known to be the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible. It is widely regarded as a reliable edition of the Hebrew and Aramaic scriptures and is still the most widely used original-language edition among scholars.

For the first time, the text of the BHS is offered here in a particularly reader-friendly edition. The text-critical apparatus is replaced by a dense network of reading and translation aids at the bottom of each page.

The BHS Reader’s Edition at a glance:

• Complete text of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, checked against the Leningrad Codex
• All words that occur fewer than 70 times are parsed and contextually defined
• All weak verb forms are parsed
• A glossary lists words occurring more than 70 times
• Improved layout of poetic text
• High quality paper does not bleed through

About the editors:

• Donald R. Vance received his philological training at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and teaches Biblical Hebrew at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• George Athas teaches Old Testament at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia.
• Yael Avrahami heads the Department of Biblical Studies at Oranim Academic College in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.