masoretic

Traditional Jewish scripture

Masoretic refers to the Masorah, the system of notes and markings that Jewish scribes developed to preserve the exact text of the Hebrew Bible.

The Masoretic text is the authoritative Hebrew version used in Judaism today, standardized between the 7th and 10th centuries.

The Dead Sea Scrolls predate the Masoretic tradition by a thousand years.

hebrew

vocalization

Producing sounds with voice

diacriticsMarks altering letter pronunciation
pronunciationManner of speaking words
phonologyScience of language sounds

Ashkenazi · Sephardi · Semitic · Aramaic · trope · accent marks

biblical

Torah

Judaism's core scripture

GenesisFirst biblical book
ExodusMass departure from a place
LeviticusHebrew scripture of rituals

Numbers · Deuteronomy · Psalms · Isaiah · Jeremiah · Ezekiel · Daniel · Tanakh · Hebrew Bible · scriptural

manuscript

codex

Ancient bound manuscript

parchmentTreated hide for manuscripts
vellumPrepared calfskin for writing
scrollWound document of parchment

folio · scribe · transcription · preservation · archival · provenance · colophon · quire

scholarly

philology

Study of historical texts

paleographyStudy of ancient handwriting
exegesisCritical textual interpretation
hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods

collation · critical edition · recension · apparatus · emendation · scribal error · transmission

Opposites

textual tradition

masoreticSeptuagint

Greek translation of Hebrew scriptures

Dead Sea Scrolls · Samaritan · Alexandrian · Greek

scribal methodology

masoreticunpointed

Lacking a sharp end

consonantal · unstandardized · variant · fluid

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