HEBREW OLD TESTAMENT The ISA program uses as its Hebrew text the
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex, which reproduces the Leningrad
Codex B 19a (L), considered the oldest dated manuscript of the
complete Hebrew Bible. Much of the Old Testament is in Hebrew,
but a few passages (Ezra 4:8 - 6:18, 7:12-26, Jeremiah 10:11,
and Daniel 2:4 - 7:28) are in Chaldee, a close cognate language.
In the ISA program, words in Aramaic (Chaldee) passages are
tagged with an (A). Hebrew is a member of the Semitic family of
languages. Biblical Hebrew is the name used for the Hebrew of
the Old Testament. The reader should bear in mind that the
pronunciation of Hebrew in the time of the writing of the Old
Testament books differs from that in the time of the Masoretic
punctuation. The vocalization of the Hebrew Bible represents the
pronunciation as of about the 7th cent. A.D. Much of the
discussion about the pronunciation of the Hebrew text is often
hypothetical. Strictly speaking the sounds of a language can
only be studied in the spo