- The
Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were
groups of
Jewish scribe-scholars who...
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notes were
added because the
Masoretes recognized the
possibility of
human error in
copying the
Hebrew Bible. The
Masoretes were not
working with the original...
- of
niqqud devised by the
Masoretes of Babylon;
defunct Palestinian vocalization, a
system of
niqqud devised by the
Masoretes of Jerusalem;
defunct Tiberian...
- (God)—were
inserted by the
Masoretes to
indicate that
these substitutes were to be used. When יהוה
precedes or
follows Adonai, the
Masoretes placed the
vowel points...
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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...
- only one
still used to a
significant degree today, was
created by the
Masoretes of
Tiberias in the
second half of the
first millennium AD in the Land...
-
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...
-
Masoretic Text, the
authoritative text of the
Tanakh for
Rabbinic Judaism Masoretes,
scribes who p****ed down the
Masoretic text Masortim,
meaning "traditional"...
- most
recently the 10th-century
medieval Masoretic Text
compiled by the
Masoretes,
currently used in
Rabbinic Judaism. The
terms "Hebrew Bible" or "Hebrew...
- Mesopotamia, and
Lower Mesopotamia ("Babylonia"). In the time of the
Masoretes (8th-10th centuries),
there were
three distinct notations for denoting...
