Ben Denckla
bdenckla.bsky.social
Ben Denckla
@bdenckla.bsky.social
Masoretic programmer. Contributor to UXLC & MAM (https://tanach.us & https://purl.archive.org/mam/hebrew-wikisource).
Chabad has the weirdest and possibly the worst Tanakh on the web. See my review: bdenckla.github.io/MAM-with-doc....

Also see other things I've written: github.com/bdenckla/doc...

#BiblicalHebrew
Review of Chabad’s CTR
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October 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What parts of the consensus understanding of the poetic cantillation system are rejected by David C. Mitchell, in his version of Haïk-Vantoura's system? I answer this question in this review of Mitchell's book, The Songs of Ascents: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #CriticalBible
Review of Mitchell's "The Songs of Ascents"
This is a review of The Songs of Ascents: Psalms 120 to 134 in the Worship of Jerusalem’s Temples by David C. Mitchell. I can only review with some authority the following parts of this book: Chapte...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In researching Tiberian Masoretic manuscripts like the Leningrad Codex, which sources are over-appreciated, and which are under-appreciated? I lay out my take on these questions in the course of my review of one particular article: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #CriticalBible
Review of "Textual Variants … B19a …"
Review of “Textual Variants … B19a …” Introduction This document reviews the following article by Edson de Faria Francisco: Textual Variants between the Leningrad Codex B19a and Other Masoretic Source...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you're interested in #BiblicalHebrew Unicode, check out three proposals I recently made either directly to the UTC or to the UTC SEWG, concerning sheva na; dagesh ḥazaq; and zarqa/tsinor and tsinorit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Proposals submitted to UTC SEWG or directly to UTC
Regarding the name “Heavy Sheva” Re-documenting ZARQA and ZINOR Adding dagesh xazaq to Hebrew
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June 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If the Tiberian Masoretes are your heroes, and BHS is your villain, this article is for you😉:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – Part 4: Atnaḥ hafukh
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January 3, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – part 3 – WLC’s extra verses in Joshua: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – part 3 – WLC’s extra verses in Joshua
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December 21, 2023 at 2:56 AM
Fans of Masorah notes may enjoy my new article, "Saying the quiet part out loud", which is part 2 of what I hope will be an ongoing series called "Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes". docs.google.com/document/d/1... #BiblicalHebrew
Undoing and redoing the work of the Masoretes – part 2 – Saying the quiet part out loud
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December 14, 2023 at 8:19 PM