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[Rob]

I do now agree that the MT is a fine text. You just have to keep in mind that it is a product of human deduction. Verse/Chapter numbering, vowels, punctuation, etc were all not in the original text. One also has to keep in mind that the traditional MT canon is soley the work of Jewish authors with the exception of modern texts. (Such as the BHS.) The manuscriptive varients chosen will reflect this fact and will have bias according to their particular tradition. The "dividing line" is that we have more evidence supporting our translations; coming from many different manuscripts.

I used to hold this against them until I realized just how much we do the same thing in our texts. I truely wish a completely unified version could be released including the biblical manuscripts from the dead sea scrolls etc.

Westminster Theological Seminary is working with an international group of Jewish scholars to come up with the next critical edition of the Hebrew bible "Biblia Hebraica Quinta".

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