Somewhat making up for this, however, is the ability to simply click-hold and drag your way through the images. You have to right-click, then navigate through the contextual menu for the zoom percentage you want, then select it. My only critique of this new, flagship feature (which is executed really well) is that there’s not a keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out of the codex images. Note, too, the nifty blue and yellow color scheme in the image above. One other really cool feature–by hovering over the verse reference in the codex, you bring up a pop-up window showing you multiple versions: Now you can navigate the Leningrad Codex using the sidebar at left. Or you can open it in its own window, like so: It’s possible to zoom in and out of the image at far right to get a closer look at the manuscript detail if you desire. You can see in the image above that I can view the Leningrad Codex (with verse markers) in tandem with BibleWorks’s Search Window (far left), Browse Window (second from left and showing multiple versions of my choosing), and Analysis Window (second from right, here featuring lexical data that automatically appears as I hover over words in the Browse window). You can toggle verse markers off if you want to read through with no help.Ĭlick image or open in new tab to enlarge I wish though that the English translation of the sectarian documents in BibleWorks could be integrated into the browse window, as is the case with all of the biblical texts. There are even verse markers so you know where you are in the manuscript. pdf.īibleWorks 10 offers Leningrad images, fully integrated with the rest of the software’s texts. Since I didnt review BibleWorks, I havent made any comparison between the two.
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(See here, for example.) But users of Bible software still have hoped for something more integrated and easier to use than a. I would respond to only one thing - you asked how I could place WS on the same level as BibleWorks. Images of Codex Leningradensis, as it is also known, are available freely online.
BHS is what’s called a diplomatic edition–it uses Leningrad as the best available text with a critical apparatus at bottom. However, what I like most about Bibleworks 10 and previous versions is the ease of use in regards to basic verse searches and the master cross references displayed in the analysis window.
Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky, USA BibleWorks 10.
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Leningrad is the earliest complete Masoretic manuscript still available to us, dating from the 11th century. Now with version 10 there are a few improvements that allow you to separate the browse window into two different windows for different functions. Some readers of this review are likely thinking, I already own the ESV Study. Public Domain via Wikimedia CommonsThe Leningrad Codex is the basis for the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), the critical edition of the Hebrew Bible. “Leningrad Codex Carpet page e” by Shmuel ben Ya’akov.