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Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

The accents, or cantillation marks, in the Hebrew Bible are used in synagogues today to help cantors chants the Hebrew Bible. However, it has been proposed that these marks give valuable clues as to the structure of the Hebrew sentences. Certain accents join words closely together, while other accents cue the reader that two words are not to be joined tightly in a phrase. Wickes’ Treatises...

way. The one notation fixed the traditional pronunciation of each word, the other its traditional modulation. The two together furnished the needful directions to the Reader for the correct recitation of the sacred text. These musical signs, or accents (as we term them)4, are marked, according to the Palestinian system,5 in our printed texts. We find there two sets of signs,—representing, of course, different modes of recitation,—the one employed for the twenty-one (so-called) Prose Books, the other
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