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This book is a revised edition of the Old Testament in Hebrew or the Hebrew Bible (TANAKH) and is intended for students, pastors and Bible scholars in developing nations who, for various reasons, do not have easy access to such resources. This Hebrew Old Testament edition is based on the Westminster Leningrad Codex, a scholarly respected text edition.
Without intending to be a text-critical edition and without containing an explicit text-critical apparatus, it also contains hints on variant readings in other major editions of the text, such as the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) and Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ).

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Born in 1950, Dr. Schmidt graduated in Theology and Religious Studies in addition to other majors, such as Linguistics, Chinese, English, and African Studies from universities in Germany and abroad. He is a retired bishop in the Anglican rite.

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