Biblia Hebraica is a Latin phrase meaning Hebrew Bible, traditionally used as a title for printed editions of the Tanakh.

The Old Testament scholar Rudolf Kittel from Leipzig started to develop a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in 1901, which would later become the first of its kind.

Some of the references in the textual apparatus quote manuscripts that have been destroyed in the bombing of Leipzig during World War II and therefore no longer exist.

[2] The third edition was superseded by the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BH4), which appeared in installments from 1968 to 1976 and as a single volume in 1977.

The current project in this tradition is the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BH5), which started in 2004 and will be completed after 2024.