Biblia Hebraica Quinta
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BHK Biblia Hebraica Kittel (1. - 3.)
BHS Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (4.) BHQ Biblia Hebraica Quinta (5.) |
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| Translator | see BHQ Fascicles and Editors |
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| Language | Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, English |
| Publisher | Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart |
| Published | 2004 – est. 2020 (see release date) |
| Media type | Hardcover pocket edition ("Handausgabe") |
| Preceded by | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia |
| Website | https://www.academic-bible.com/en/home/current-projects/biblia-hebraica-quinta-bhq/ |
The Biblia Hebraica Quinta, abbreviated as BHQ or rarely BH5, is the fifth edition of the Biblia Hebraica and when complete will supersede the fourth edition, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS).
Like the third and fourth editions, the BH5 uses a text based on the Leningrad Codex; the text has been corrected against colour photographs of the codex taken in the 1990s.
Unlike previous editions, it includes a commentary explaining the Masorah and discussing the significance of the textual variants in the footnotes. It also contains the Masorah magna, which was not in the first three versions and only available in a supplementary volume in BHS. Another change is that it rarely cites variants from Hebrew manuscripts collated by Benjamin Kennicott and C. D. Ginsburg; the editors, following the work of Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, believe that such variants are of little value.
The edition has been described as "international and ecumenical" as it features editors from 13 different countries and different denominations (with involvement from Catholics, Protestants and Jews). The work is currently being published in fascicles according to this release schedule:
Consulting work for the Masorah is being done by Aron Dotan, Tel Aviv University, 
Israel.
In October 2016, the release dates for Leviticus and Ezekiel slipped a year (from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018, respectively) on the Scholarly-Bibles.com web page, and the release date for Numbers changed from "forthcoming in 2017" to "in preparation," and that for Job changed from "in preparation" to "forthcoming in 2017."
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