156 H.G.M. Williamson critical importance are included in the apparatus. In earlier editions, this apparatus was in fact divided into two sections, for matters of greater or lesser significance, but in the current and forthcoming editions this rather artificial distinction has been dropped. There is another important critical edition also under preparation at the present time, of which 3 volumes (Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel) have appeared so far. This is the Bible Project of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (8). It differs from the Biblia Hebraica in certain important respects. First, it follows a different manuscript, namely the Aleppo Codex, which the editors believe to be the most superior masoretic manuscript which survives (though for most purposes the differences from Leningradensis are insignificant). Unfortunately, however, this manuscript has suffered damage in the past, so that the edition will have to follow an alternative manuscript when it reaches those parts. Secondly, the edition includes no less that four apparatuses, each of which aims to report as fully as possible on variations in the ancient translations, in the much older manuscripts among the Dead Sea Scrolls and the like, and so on. The aim here is to be factual in reporting the data; no attempt is made to evaluate the text-critical worth of the variants or to catalogue the many conjectural emendations which scholars have felt obliged to propose over the years (and most of which are rejected by the majority of their colleagues). Only in tersely expressed notes to the apparatuses does this edition offer some evaluative comments, usually of a noticeably conservative nature (9). best to reproduce the text of the latest hand of L with close fidelity. We have accordingly refrained from «removing obvious scribal errors»”; ELLIGER – RUDOLPH (eds.), Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, xii (the citation is from Kittel’s introduction to the third edition). Even so, BHS still deviates from L in placing the books of Chronicles last and in certain other details. (8) For a detailed description of the project, see the editor’s introduction to the first volume: GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN (ed.), The Book of Isaiah, xi-xlviii. (9) A number of comparative analyses or reviews of these (as well as of other) editions have been published over the years; examples include M. GOSHEN- GOTTSTEIN, “Editions of the Hebrew Bible-Past and Future”, “Sha‘arei Talmon”: Studies in the Bible, Qumran, and the Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu Talmon (eds. M. FISHBANE – E. TOV) (Winona Lake, IN 1992) 221- 242 (with regard solely to the Masoretic text); J.A. SANDARS, “The Hebrew University and Biblia Hebraica Quinta”, JBL 118 (1999) 518-526 (also relevant is his much earlier “Text and Canon: Concepts and Methods”, JBL 98 [1979] 5-29); E. TOV, “Hebrew Scripture Editions: Philosophy and Praxis”, From 4QMMT to Resurrection. Mélanges qumraniens en hommage à Émile Puech (eds. F. GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ – A. STEUDEL – E. TIGCHELAAR) (STDJ 61; Leiden 2006) 281-312.