Masoretes

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This article is about groups of scholars who compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides of Jewish texts. For a discussion of the work of the Mascorderoretes, see
Shomer Masoret
.

The Masoretes (

Tanakh
) for the worldwide Jewish community.

The

Saadya Gaon al-Fayyumi, had preferred the ben Naphtali system. It has been suggested that the ben Asher family and the majority of the Masoretes were Karaites.[4] However, Geoffrey Khan believes that the ben Asher family was probably not Karaite,[5][6] and Aron Dotan avers that there are "decisive proofs that M. Ben-Asher was not a Karaite."[7]

The Masoretes devised the vowel notation system for Hebrew that is still widely used, as well as the trope symbols used for cantillation.

The nakdanim were successors to the Masoretes in the transmission of the traditional Hebrew text of the Old Testament.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0801027994 – via Google Books
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  2. ISBN 978-0-19-065173-2 – via Google Books
    .
  3. ^ Louis Ginzberg, Caspar Levias. "Ben Naphtali". Jewish Encyclopedia.
  4. ^ "Aaron ben Moses ben Asher". Jewish Virtual Library.
  5. ISBN 978-1589830004 – via Google Books
    .
  6. ISBN 978-0521392273 – via Google Books
    .
  7. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4. Archived from the original
    on 27 July 2016.

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