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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...

section gives rules for correct pronunciation and lists of Masoretic information, such as an account of plene/defective spellings in the Torah, etc. An appendix includes other matters of the Masorah, such as the open and closed sections and the number of words, etc., in the Bible. Jekuthiel ha-Naqdan (dates uncertain, late twelfth to thirteenth century) wrote the treatise ʿEin ha-Qore, a study of details affecting proper reading in the Torah, Esther, and Lamentations. This treatise is primarily concerned
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