The
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
(
BHS
), Wide Margin Edition, is the size of the Standard Edition with text the size of the 2020 Compact Edition, leaving wide margins. The Wide Margin Edition gives professors and students the opportunity to make notes in their Bible as they translate the Hebrew Scriptures.
) 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.
Edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph, together with numerous specialist scholars, the
is a revision of the third edition of the
Biblia Hebraica
edited by Rudolf Kittel, the first Bible to be based on the Leningrad Codex. The Leningrad Codex is the oldest complete Hebrew Bible still preserved. The
originally appeared in installments from 1968 to 1976. The first one-volume edition, edited by Adrian Schenker, was published in 1977; it has since been reprinted many times.
The text is a nearly exact copy of the Masoretic Text as recorded in the Leningrad Codex. The Masoretic notes are completely revised. Included is a foreword in German, English, French, Spanish, and Latin as well as an English and German key to the Latin words, abbreviations, and other symbols in the critical apparatus.