- The
Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were
groups of
Jewish scribe-scholars who...
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primarily copied, edited, and
distributed by a
group of Jews
known as the
Masoretes between the 7th and 10th
centuries of the
Common Era (CE). The oldest...
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western s**** of the Sea of Galilee. He was
descended from a long line of
Masoretes,
starting with
someone called Asher, but
nothing is
known about them other...
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spaces between words to aid in reading. By the
eighth century CE, the
Masoretes added vowel signs.
Levites or
scribes maintained the texts, and some texts...
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Hebrew vowel points of
Adonai were
added to the
Tetragrammaton by the
Masoretes, and the
resulting form was
transliterated around the 12th
century CE...
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instead used
Hebrew or
Aramaic Targum m****cripts
later compiled by the
Masoretes and
authoritative Aramaic translations, such as
those of
Onkelos and Rabbi...
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Masoretic Text, the
authoritative text of the
Tanakh for
Rabbinic Judaism Masoretes,
scribes who p****ed down the
Masoretic text Masortim,
meaning "traditional"...
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Hebrew Bible when this was in fact a
medieval version created by the
Masoretes. The
oldest nearly-complete m****cripts of the Old
Testament include the...
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consonantal text of the
Hebrew Bible was
provided with
vowel marks by the
Masoretes to ****ist reading. In
places where the word to be read (the qere) differed...
- gl****blowers in Sidon,
furriers and
dyers in Jerusalem.
During this period, the
Masoretes of
Tiberias established the niqqud, a
system of
diacritical signs used...
