Masorete

(ˈmæsəˌriːt) or

Massorete

;

Masorite

(ˈmæsəˌraɪt)

1. (Judaism) a member of the school of rabbis that produced the Masora

2. (Judaism) a Hebrew scholar who is expert in the Masora

[C16: from Hebrew māsōreth Masora]

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Mas•o•rete

(ˈmæs əˌrit) also

Mas•o•rite

(-ˌraɪt)

n.

one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.

[1580–90; < Hebrew māsōreth]

Masorete, Masorite

any of the Jewish scribes of the 10th century who compiled the Masora. — Masoretic, — Masoretical, adj.

See also: Judaism

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Masorete - a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah)

Masorite, Massorete

bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

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Moreover, in Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex (JPS, July), Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider note that like any similarly priceless pile of papers, the Aleppo Codex has from time to time been the subject of fantastic claims and suspicions of forgery; in particular, the unscrupulous Crimean Karaite scholar Abraham Kirkovich (1786-1874) tarnished the manuscript's reputation through his spurious claim that its author was a Karaite, rather than a Masorete.

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Baptists had produced few Hebrew grammarians and never a Masorete. In Page Kelley, Baptists produced a quiet, humble scholar.

Page H. Kelley: Old Testament scholar and devoted Baptist

As indicated by this work's subtitle, Ben Asher, a Masorete (transmitter of the traditional Hebrew Bible), was responsible for adding vowels, accents, and a variety of other marginal and interlinear materials to a text that had hitherto been written with consonants only.

Shorter notices

symbol [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] for the Masoretes (as well as

The Aramaic of Qumran

The Masoretes note in II Samuel that although the keri ("read" version) of verse 51 has migdol, a noun, the ketiv (written version) has a verb, magdil.

Magdil and migdol--liturgical responses to textual variants

Note, parenthetically, that I chose the Masoretic-based sources owing to the extreme measures the Masoretes used to promote accuracy (H.

Biblical longevities: reply to Huebner

The Masoretes added accents and vocalizations to the consonant-rich pre-Masoretic text that was considered authoritative beginning in the second century CE.

The End of Biblical Studies

"While it is almost, if not quite certain, that the Name was originally pronounced 'Yahweh', this pronunciation was not indicated when the Masoretes added vowel signs to the consonantal Hebrew text.

What does my God look like? What does my God look like? Are you mad to ask me such a silly question? Did I say I see Him? No, I said we speak. I have never met my God but he has told me that I am made in his image. And that makes common sense to me

Rodd's commentary on Psalms gives full attention to Christian interpretation, including modem literary critical interpretation, but makes only passing reference to Jewish scribes (Masoretes) in the context of textual corruption.

Oxford's new one-volume commentary on the Bible. (Review Essay)

The members - known as the Masoretes or Massoretes - ...

Stylometry

The editing work of the Masoretes in the late first millennium AD in particular erects an almost impenetrable barrier to recovering the shape of biblical Hebrew when it was written (a point which could have been raised in the dictionary's long introduction; it differentiates the biblical texts from the other texts the dictionary deploys).

The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew