User talk:Dovi/Miqra according to the Masorah/Information about this Edition

"L" for Leningrad Codex in Lists
Hi Smercdonald, it's amazing to see your translation expand. You are doing a great job.

I noticed that you are putting a lot of effort into the list of anomalous letters in the Leningrad Codex Torah. One small suggestion: Since this is a translation, it might make sense to use the English letter L instead of ל in the list. If you do that, then the elements in the list will also format properly (i.e. "L=" will appear before the anomalous word and the exclamation mark will follow the word immediately).

Also, you might want to put small into your userpage so that it won't be left blank as a red link. Dovi (talk) 19:55, 30 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Dovi. I've taken both of your suggestions. I would ask whether there might be equivalent English equivalents for the other manuscripts, but I see you've already got that set up. Thank you for all the help! Smercdonald (talk) 00:51, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Chapter 3 is now its own page
Since it already has a lot of translated material, Chapter 3 is now on its own page. The Hebrew and English versions of the chapter also link directly to each other (see "Languages" in the margin). This will make it easier to jump back and forth between. It will also be easier to compare the sections and their numbers, because they will now be even in Hebrew and in English (previously they were "demoted" because the chapter itself was a section on level "==").

I hope this makes it more convenient. Dovi (talk) 20:22, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

I guess the same thing should be done for the appendices... Dovi (talk) 20:23, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Chapter 3, Subsection 2.2.6
Dovi, if it is not too much trouble, I wonder if I might bother you about a word here. In the sentence,

נוסח הפנים בכתי"ל מול המסורות והמסירות,

what is that is meant by מסירות? For the most part I've been able to pick my way through with dictionaries, but in this particular case I seem stuck. Does it refer perhaps to some kind of additional notes at the beginning or end of the Leningrad Codex?Smercdonald (talk) 22:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, that's a good question (the phrasing is not intuitive outside of the literature). It means: "The main text of L versus masoretic notes and masoretic readings [=in other mss.]". Since masorah literally means "that which is transmitted", mesirot has the sense of "readings that have been transmitted". Dovi (talk) 07:40, 5 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Ah, that makes sense. Thak you! Smercdonald (talk) 17:39, 5 December 2021 (UTC)