(With apologies for cross posting) Please see forwarded message below for another answer to the Mikraot Gedolot question. I also received the following reply from another librarian:
I contacted Bar-Ilan University Press in summer 2012 concerning this question. This is what they answered: "There are indeed 2 editions in the Mikraot Gedolot HaKeter Series: The regular edition is cm 30X23.5, while the smaller edition is sized cm 24.5X17.5 The Series Editorial Board informs us that the completion of the Regular edition will not be available within the next 3 years or so." Best wishes Vanessa Vanessa Freedman Hebrew & Jewish Studies Librarian UCL Library Services University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 2598 (Internal ext. 32598) Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 7373 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: @vrfreedman Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/library<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library> **Please remember the environment and only print this if necessary** From: Jordan S. Penkower [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 December 2013 18:03 To: Freedman, Vanessa Subject: Mikraot Gedolot HaKeter Vanessa, someone called my attention to your query about Mikraot Gedolot HaKeter. here is my response (and you can pass it on to any others who had the same query). 1. MGH was originally published (incomplete) in a folio format; i.e. all the volumes that were published were in folio format, and had introductions. 2. HOWEVER, at some stage the actualy publication of the remaining volumes was stalled because of lack of funds.eventually, they found a donor (Dr. Marcus Katz), and then they resumed publication.at this point, they decided to publish the remaining volumes in quarto size, without introductions. 3. thus, all of a sudden there appeared several (!) new volumes (whose publication had been "backed up" because of lack of funds), all in the smaller format and without the introductions: Exodus (vol. 1), Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Twelve Prophets, the Five Scrolls. [i emphasize that these new volumes never appeared in the folio format]. 4. then the decision was also made to print some of the previous folio volumes in the smaller format - e.g Genesis. thus, now the whole Pentateuch was available as a set in the small format (ONLY). some of the other folio volumes were also now reprinted in the smaller format: e.g. Samuel, Kings, Psalms. 5. they will continue to publish the new volumes (e.g. Job) in the smaller format. thus, the complete set of all the volumes will really be a mixture of some folio volumes, and of some quarto volumes. 6. i assume that at some later stage they may decide to publish the quarto volumes - in folio size too (eg the one listed in #3 above), and presumably add introductions, too. and similarly, i assume they at some later stage they will print the remaining folio volumes in quarto size (eg Isaiah, Ezekiel). 7. i should emphasize that some of the volumes (e.g. in the folio size) have appeared in a number of "editions"; i.e. they were reprinted, but with corrections entered therein (although not particularly noted in the title page or elsewhere). i hope the above clarifies the matter for you. with best wishes, Jordan Penkower (Prof., Bible Dept, Bar-Ilan University).
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