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The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Introduction and Annotated Glossary is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the barriers involved in teaching students of Biblical Hebrew about the Masorah is the lack of introductory literature on the subject. Although a lot of information about the Masorah is available in print, most of it is in technical professional journals or encyclopedia articles. Scattered about in disparate sources, often not in English, this literature is easier to ignore than it is to...

period; however, it is only a small step from these Talmudic discussions to Masoretic activity in the proper sense. Thus, it is somewhat artificial to fix an absolute starting date for the Masoretic Period. As Yeivin has noted, the work of the Masoretes probably started during the end of the Talmudic period.9 Another approach to this question is to isolate a time period during which the Masorah first began to be committed to writing. Most scholars believe that the consonantal text was standardized
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