This is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible . It is the original language edition most widely-used by scholars. It is a revision of the third edition of the Biblia Hebraica the first Bible to be based on the Leningrad Codex (the oldest complete Hebrew Bible still preserved). It includes a foreword in German, English, French, Spanish and Latin as well as an English and German key to the Latin words, abbreviations and other symbols in the critical apparatus. It includes a wide margin for professors and students to make notes as they translate the Hebrew scriptures.