The Biblia Hebraica Quinta Editione, abbreviated as BHQ or rarely BH5, is the fifth edition of the Biblia Hebraica. When completed, it will supersede the fourth edition, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS/ BH4).

BHQ Edition Plan: Fascicles and Editors

The edition has been described as "international and ecumenical" as it features editors from a diverse range of institutions, countries, and denominations (with involvement from Catholics, Protestants and Jews). The work is currently being published in fascicles according to this release schedule: A number of consultants are also assisting with the project: for the Masorah, Aron Dotan (Tel Aviv University); for the electronic edition, data management, and programming, Alan Groves† and Soetjianto (Westminster Theological Seminary); for copyediting, Roger Omanson, Harold Scanlin, and Sarah Lind (United Bible Societies); and as associate editors/reviewers, Siegried Kreuzer (Protestant University Wuppertal), Matthieu Richelle (University of Louvain), and Malka Strasberg-Edinger (Jewish Theological Seminary)

Publication Notes

Completion Date

Due to meticulous nature of the work, the timeline for the edition's completion has constantly been delayed. Before the release of the first fascicle in 2002, one of the original editors, Richard D. Weis, expressed optimistically that the project would be completed by 2010. As recently as June 2023, Rolf Schäfer, another of the BHQ editors, expressed that the present estimate for completion is approximately 2032. "At present our estimate for the completion of BHQ is by 2032 approximately."