What is the significance of the inscription in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia between the Psalter and the book of Job and what is the proper translation?
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The text in question is an end-note by an editor, fairly typical of printed editions of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Thanks to a friend whose Hebrew is fluent (mine is not), I learned that the meaning is quite straightforward. It refers to the Book of Psalms. It simply summarizes the number of verses and sections:
sum of the verses of [the] book
two thousands and five hundred
and twenty and seven
and sections 19
The "sections" apparently refers to a reading schedule. Thanks to @Magicker72 at Mi Yodeya, I was able to discover what this means. It is an old division of the Hebrew Bible, no longer in use, into sections for scheduled reading.
Tanach Yomi helpfully provides a list which includes the 19 sedarim [divisions] for Psalms, with starting points at: 1:1, 11:7, 20:10, 29:11, 35:28, 41:14, 49:19, 57:12, 67:8, 72:20, 78:38, 84:13, 90:17, 101:1, 105:45, 111:10, 119:72, 128:6, and 140:14.
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Thank you Dan. Very helpful. – ed huff Jul 15 '23 at 23:49
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@edhuff - just making sure you saw my edit. The division of the Psalms into 19 sections is an old system no longer in use. – Dan Fefferman Jul 16 '23 at 13:35
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Very interesting. Thanks Dan for researching this. I also like to 'drill down' to uncover meaning. – ed huff Jul 17 '23 at 23:17