- 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...
- romanized: ʾAbbū ʿĪmrān, Mōše ben Dāwīḏ ben Nap̄tālī) was a
rabbi and
Masorete who
flourished around 890-940 CE,
probably in Tiberias. Of his life little...
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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"...
- "They
pierced my
hands and my feet" was used in
Psalm 22:16 (vs. the
Masoretes'
reading of the
Hebrew "like
lions my
hands and feet"). Otherwise, however...
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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...