Daniel Holman has been sending Chris Kimball and Ben Denckla suggested changes to the UXLC, a book at a time, and this page collects them. Most are places where he reads the Leningrad Codex images differently from the text as it stands; the rest ask the UXLC for a note on a reading Holman and the UXLC agree about.
Each card is one case, and its labelled lines are Holman's, quoted from the email as he wrote them, including his spellings of the accent names. Four things on a card are not: the atom number at its head, which is the UXLC's and only usually his as well; the manuscript location, which is estimated here rather than quoted; the Current Text and Suggested Text rows on the cases whose message gives the two forms no lines of their own; and one word of his Lev 25:20 case, which had the UXLC's note letter c sitting inside it. That letter is the note's name rather than part of the word, so it and the invisible marks his mail client wrapped it in are dropped here.
The atom number at the head of a card is the UXLC's, and on 5 of the 125 cases it is not the number Holman wrote. Where a verse has a ketiv and a qere, the UXLC numbers each of them and Holman numbers the pair once; where a samekh divides a verse, the UXLC numbers that too and Holman does not. Everywhere else the two counts agree. The UXLC's number is the one shown, because it is the one that finds the word at tanach.us, whose change list and note pages both use it. Holman's number follows the UXLC's in parentheses on the Leviticus 16:21, Joshua 5:1, 2 Samuel 24:10, Ezekiel 8:6 and 1 Chronicles 27:21 cards, and nowhere else.
On 9 of the 125 cases, the Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy ones, Holman's message gives the two forms no lines of their own. The form as it stands is in parentheses on his Word / Verse line, after a reference this page already gives at the head of the card, and the form he proposes is in parentheses inside his suggestion sentence. Both are read out here and given rows of their own, so that every card reads alike, and where that sentence held the proposed form it no longer repeats what is now printed above it. The Leviticus 7:25 and Leviticus 16:21 cases ask only for a note and propose no form, so they have no Suggested Text row.
The manuscript location on a card is not Holman's. He names the scan file he worked from and puts the atom in a band of a column of it, as Col. 2 middle; the file name says nothing a reader can use, so the card reports an estimated column and line instead, worked out from the page breaks the UXLC's Leningrad Codex index records and the count of atoms between them. It agrees with his column on 117 of the 124 cases that name a column, and the Leviticus 7:25, Ezekiel 16:12, Hosea 5:6, Psalms 31:24, Psalms 48:5, Proverbs 30:15 and Daniel 5:3 cards give his reading beside the estimate. The band is left out of that comparison, top, middle and bottom being a gloss that a line number supersedes. The folio link under the line is the estimate's too; where the folio Holman's ordinal decodes to differs, the card names it beside the estimate. The 1 Samuel 28:12 case cites no scan file, so the estimate stands there with nothing of Holman's beside it.
A word in square brackets is Ben Denckla's, put there afterwards in place of the word the message has: on the subject of the message of 07 August 2026, New York time, Joshua is shown as [Judges]; on the Note line of Judges 11:24, Tet is shown as [Tav]. The one other bracketed phrase on the page is not a correction of that kind: [address removed] stands wherever a message gave an email address.
A card also links whatever the UXLC's editor has entered for that word in 2026.10.19 - Changes, the changes proposed for UXLC 2.6. Of the 125 cases, 25 have such a change item and 100 have none. The Judges 11:24 case has two, one per word of a compound whose two marks the case asks to exchange. A change item is the editor's wording rather than Holman's, and the Judges 11:24 one is older than the message quoted beside it: Ben Denckla entered it in April, on the same word and about the same indistinct mark.
Nothing here is a decision. The suggestions are Chris Kimball's to accept or decline for the UXLC.
The greeting and sign-off of each message, with its cases linked. The body of every case is on its card above. Email addresses are replaced with [address removed], and a word in square brackets is Ben Denckla's in place of the message's own, as the intro above says; nothing else is edited. The date is the date of the message itself, so the one forwarded to supply attachments left off a first send carries the forwarding date, and the original send time stands in the forwarded header quoted below it.
Proposed Corrections and Notes for UXLC (Exodus 7, 11, 20 & 38)
Hello Chris and Ben,
It is easier for me to do these book by book. Finding suggested corrections is getting harder, which is a good thing! Please find below four suggested corrections and manuscript notes for the UXLC based on image comparisons.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Proposed Corrections and Notes for UXLC (Exodus 7, 11, 20 & 38).eml
Proposed Corrections and Notes for UXLC (Leviticus 7, 15, 16 & 25)
Hello Chris and Ben,
Please find below four suggested corrections and manuscript notes for the UXLC based on image comparisons.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Proposed Corrections and Notes for UXLC (Leviticus 7, 15, 16 & 25).eml
Proposed Correction and Note for UXLC (Deuteronomy 33)
Hello Chris and Ben,
I have no suggested corrections for Numbers and could only find one for Deuteronomy.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Proposed Correction and Note for UXLC (Deuteronomy 33).eml
Suggested UXLC Corrections for Joshua (4 Cases)
Greetings Chris and Ben,
Please find below four suggested corrections for the book of Joshua text.
Best regards,
Daniel
Source: Suggested UXLC Corrections for Joshua (4 Cases).eml
Suggested UXLC Corrections for [Judges] (one Case)
Greetings Chris and Ben,
Please find below four suggested corrections for the book of Joshua text.
Best regards,
Daniel
Source: Suggested UXLC Corrections for Joshua (one Case).eml
Fw: Suggested Corrections for Samuel (1Sa - 2Sa)
Thank you Ben for catching my mistake of forgetting to attach the images!
Sent: Friday, August 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
From: "Daniel Holman" [address removed]
To: [address removed], [address removed]
Subject: Suggested Corrections for Samuel (1Sa - 2Sa)
Dear Chris and Ben,
Please review the following suggested corrections and notes regarding the UXLC text and image locations for 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel:
Please let me know if you need any further adjustments or details added to these items.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Fw_ Suggested Corrections for Samuel (1Sa - 2Sa).eml
Proposed Corrections: Chronicles (1Ch–2Ch)
Dear Chris and Ben,
Please review the following suggested corrections and notes regarding the UXLC text and image locations for the book of Chronicles.
Many of these items address the visual identification of Merekha versus meteg in the Leningrad Codex (L) compared to modern editions like Dotan, BHS, and Ginsburg.
Suggested Corrections:
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Proposed Corrections_ Chronicles (1Ch–2Ch).eml
Suggested Corrections for Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
Dear Chris and Ben,
Please review the following suggested corrections and notes regarding the UXLC text and image locations for Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Suggested Corrections for Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.eml
Suggested Corrections for Job
Dear Chris and Ben,
Please review the following suggested corrections and notes regarding the UXLC text and image locations for the book of Job.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Suggested Corrections for Job.eml
Suggested Corrections for Psalms (Part I)
Hello Chris and Ben,
The transcription of Merekha and Meteg from L into the UXLC is challenging, as the image often looks like a Meteg while UXLC reads it as a Merekha, and vice versa. Many of these Merekhas appear to be carryovers from the BHS. While each word should follow an accent rule, I understand your goal is to transcribe exactly what the image of L shows regarding the slant of the vertical mark. To ensure we are aligned, I can continue tracking these occurrences throughout the rest of the Bible. Let me know your thoughts!
Below is the first part of Psalms, broken down to keep the email size manageable with the attached images.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Suggested Corrections for Psalms (Part I).eml
28 Suggested Corrections (Psalms Part 2 of 2)
Hello Chris and Ben,
Below is the rest of Psalms.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: 28 Suggested Corrections (Psalms Part 2 of 2).eml
5 Suggested Corrections Proverbs
Hello Chris and Ben,
Here are suggested corrections for Proverbs:
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: 5 Suggested Corrections Proverbs.eml
Suggested Corrections (Jer, Eze, Minor Prophets, Dan)
Hello Chris and Ben,
Below are 24 proposed suggested corrections and updates for the UXLC based on my recent analysis of the Leningrad Codex (L) images, along with comparisons to BHS and Dotan.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: Suggested Corrections (Jer, Eze, Minor Prophets, Dan).eml
UXLC Correction for 1Samuel 28:12
Hello Chris and Ben,
Here is another correction I overlooked.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Source: UXLC Correction for 1Samuel 28_12.eml
