Who Were the Masoretes?
The Masoretes Were a Group of Hebrew Scholars Who Worked for 400 Year's to Collect All the Versions of the Old Testament and Refine Them into an Authoritative...
The Masoretes were a group of Hebrew scholars who worked for 400 years to collect all the versions of the Old Testament and refine them into an authoritative text.
What did masoretes do?
The Masoretes, who from about the 6th to the 10th century ceworked to reproduce the original text of the Hebrew Bible, replaced the vowels of the name YHWH with the vowel signs of the Hebrew words Adonai or Elohim.
Where did the Masoretic text come from?
Etymology. From the Hebrew word masorah "tradition". Originally masoret, a word found in Book of Ezekiel 20:37 (there from אסר "to bind" for "fetters").
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