Massorete
Americannoun
noun
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More important are those passages in which the Massoretes have definitely adopted a variation from the consonantal text.
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Those due to the Massoretes, or, in other words, the K’ris, will naturally deserve attention from their antiquity.
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And the same may be said of G. Jahn's theory that some mention of the singing of the three, contained in the original, was expunged by the Massoretes as too wonderful and apocryphal.
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It is to the Massoretes that some attribute the accents which serve to mark at once the punctuation and the accentuation of the Biblical text.
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The inevitable result of such a system must have been the fixing of an officially recognized text, which could scarcely have differed materially from that which was finally adopted by the Massoretes.
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