Masoretic Text and its history of transmission for the investigation of meaning. There is no one text of the Bible: scholars need to indicate which text they are referring to when discussing the meaning of ‘the’ biblical text. Each text of course has been produced by different people (authors and redactors). Although the Masoretes have produced a reasonably standard text, the language encoded in that text is not monochrome. When comparing biblical texts in order to clarify the meaning of a word or