Everything about The Masoretes totally explained
The
Masoretes (
ba'alei hamasorah, Hebrew בעלי המסורה) were groups of
scribes and
Bible scholars working between the
7th and
11th centuries, based primarily in Israel in the cities of
Tiberias and
Jerusalem, as well as in
Babylonia. Each group compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of
diacritical notes on the external form of the Biblical text in an attempt to fix the pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions and
cantillation of the Jewish Bible, the
Tanakh, for the worldwide Jewish community. (See the article on the
Masoretic text for a full discussion of their work.)
The
Ben Asher family of masoretes was largely responsible for the preservation and production of the Masoretic Text, although an alternate Masoretic text of the
Ben Naphtali masoretes which differs slightly from the Ben Asher text existed. The halakhic authority
Maimonides endorsed the Ben Asher as superior, although
Saadya Gaon had preferred the Ben Naphtali system.
The Masoretes devised the
vowel notation system for Hebrew that's still widely used as well as the
trope symbols used for
cantillation.
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