- The
Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were
groups of
Jewish scribe-scholars who...
-
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...
- (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...
- of
niqqud devised by the
Masoretes of Babylon;
defunct Palestinian vocalization, a
system of
niqqud devised by the
Masoretes of Jerusalem;
defunct Tiberian...
- most
recently the 10th-century
medieval Masoretic Text
compiled by the
Masoretes,
currently used in
Rabbinic Judaism. The
terms "Hebrew Bible" or "Hebrew...
- with
spaces between words to aid reading. By the
eighth century CE, the
Masoretes added vowel signs.
Levites or
scribes maintained the texts, and some texts...
- only one
still used to a
significant degree today, was
created by the
Masoretes of
Tiberias in the
second half of the
first millennium in the Land of...
- romanized: hanniqquḏ haṭṭəḇeryāni) is a
system of
diacritics (niqqud)
devised by the
Masoretes of
Tiberias to add to the
consonantal text of the
Hebrew Bible to produce...
-
instead used
Hebrew or
Aramaic Targum m****cripts
later compiled by the
Masoretes and
authoritative Aramaic translations, such as
those of
Onkelos and Rabbi...
- well as a
vocalization system which was
added in the
Middle Ages by the
Masoretes.
There is also some
evidence of
regional dialectal variation, including...
