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Episode: The Great Isaiah Scroll | Is It Word for Word?
Description: Masoretic Text: The Textual tradition of the Hebrew Bible that the Jewish Masoretes scribes in the Medieval period (7th-10th centuries) produced.The Masoretes received exemplar scrolls and made copies of the Hebrew books.They received the consonantal texts and supplied written vowels because, up to that point, the text was read with vowels but not written with vowels. This was the 1st time that vowels were being committed to writing in the transmission of the text.They did not invent the vocalization of the reading, but they did invent the system of vowels that came...