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It's the best critical edition out there. The popular bilingual one is bad in lots of ways (wrong ordering of books because it was translated by a Protestant who put the Apocrypha at the end and ordered the other books in the Protestant order), the translation is wonky and it doesn't have variant readings. I started with that one to spot-check my translation and cast it aside in irritation (and also because I don't need to look up THAT many words).
It's the best critical edition out there. The popular bilingual one is bad in lots of ways (wrong ordering of books because it was translated by a Protestant who put the Apocrypha at the end and ordered the other books in the Protestant order), the translation is wonky and it doesn't have variant readings. I started with that one to spot-check my translation and cast it aside in irritation (and also because I don't need to look up THAT many words).
I presume that it might be the one you're referring to (it does all of the irritating things you mention). I'll try to budget money later for the edition you suggested.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
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