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MT is also in the center of scholarly critical editions (sometimes called scientific editions), which provide ancient variants to the text of MT, and these also correct the biblical text when no acceptable readings have been preserved. (These suggestions are named »emendations«).

Remarkably, although in principle the critical editions remove our thinking from MT by discussing other versions in the apparatus, in practice they make MT even more central than before because they compete with each other in producing ever more precise versions of the Leningrad or Aleppo Codex. The Leningrad Codex is at the center of the Biblia Hebraica series,⁶⁰ while the Aleppo Codex is the base for the edition of the Hebrew University Bible Project.