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Hexapla
Hexapla [Gr.,=sixfold], polyglot edition of the Hebrew Bible prepared by Origen (c.185-c.255). It was mainly in six columns—a Hebrew text (probably the Masoretic), a Greek transliteration of it, and four Greek versions (those of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, and a revised version of th... Read more
Vulgate
Vulgate [Lat. Vulgata editio =common edition], most ancient extant version of the whole Christian Bible . Its name derives from a 13th-century reference to it as the "editio vulgata." The official Latin version of the Roman Catholic Church, it was prepared c.AD 383-AD 405 by St. Jerome (c.3... Read more
Isaiah
Isaiah , prophetic book of the Bible. It is a collection of prophecies from a 300-year period attributed to Isaiah, who may have been a priest. Some scholars argue that a long-lived "school" of Isaiah preserved his oracles and supplemented them in succeeding centuries. He received his call to pr... Read more
Siccuth
Siccuth or Sakkuth , in the Book of Amos, a heathen god. Many texts regard this as a common noun; thus the King James Version translates it as "tabernacle." ... Read more
gloss
gloss [Gr.,=tongue], explanatory note on a word or words of a text, usually written between the lines or in a margin of a manuscript. In copying a manuscript, a copyist sometimes incorporated a gloss in the text, so that the copy departed from the original. The gloss may be in a language different ... Read more
Bethabara
Bethabara , place, on the Jordan, traditionally located at a ford just above the Dead Sea, where in the New Testament John was baptizing when Jesus came to him. RSV: Bethany, following some ancient texts. ... Read more
chant
chant general name for one-voiced, unaccompanied, liturgical music. Usually it refers to the liturgical melodies of the Byzantine, Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches and is analogous to cantillation in Jewish liturgical music, Qur'anic chanting in Islam, and single-line chantin... Read more
Paul Gerhardt
Paul Gerhardt 1607-76, German hymn writer and clergyman. Some of his famous texts, such as O Sacred Head Sore Wounded, are much used in English translations. ... Read more
Elohim
Elohim , term used to designate the God of Israel. The use of Elohim in Israel's religious texts is an attempt to treat the particular Hebrew God, Yahweh, in a more general religious context. ... Read more
hypertext
hypertext technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the database. The linked data may be... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Masoretic text"

Old Testament
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Ezra, and Jeremiah). The text of the Hebrew Bible (called the Masoretic text, see Masora ) had been standardized...but the only existing Hebrew texts of biblical books before this...Scrolls ). The origin of the Masoretic version is unknown. The original...
Isaiah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the 2d-1st cent. BC As pre-Masoretic texts, these are important witnesses...establishing the contours of the Hebrew text of Isaiah 1,000 years before the earliest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic text. Bibliography: See C. Westermann...
Vulgate
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...405, Jerome used the Hebrew Masoretic text, with the aid of several...to parallel it with the Hebrew Masoretic text; and the later Hebrew Psalter...new translation of the Hebrew Masoretic text. Texts of the Vulgate now contain the...
Bible, the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Testament. The oldest surviving Hebrew text (Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus) dates from ad 916. It is a Masoretic text, i.e. one prepared by the guild...5th cent. bc) is the Samaritan text of the Pentateuch. The Targums...
Hexapla
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...It was mainly in six columns—a Hebrew text (probably the Masoretic), a Greek transliteration of it, and four Greek...Septuagint). For certain sections of the Hebrew text, three further Greek versions were added. Some...
Dead Sea Scrolls
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...Bibliography Charlesworth, James, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts with English Translations: Pseudepigraphic and Non-Masoretic Psalms and Prayers (Dead Sea Scrolls, No. 4, Part A). Louisville, KY: Westminster...
Masora
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Masoretes, to establish the text of the Old Testament. A...are written in Hebrew. The Masoretic compilation that consists...top or the bottom of the text is known as the Great, or Final, Masora. Masoretic work was begun at an unknown...

Dictionary entries related to "Masoretic text"

Masoretic text
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Masoretic text The ‘official’ version...of transmission and pronunciation of the text, which was written only with consonants...confusion of meaning, vowels were added to the text and these became standard in Western Judaism...
Dead Sea scrolls
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...comparison with the Hebrew Masoretic text , but also because they illuminate...Hebrew letter of each particular text: 1QS is the Rule of the Community...MS which contained the same text as that of a medieval MS found...part the scrolls consist of texts of the Bible and of interpretations...
Music
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...of Psalms , cantillation (recitation of the masoretic text of scripture according to accent marks written in the text, led by the ḥazzan or cantor , or...have not stopped doing so since. The biblical text underlay the dev
Bible
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...Aramaic) and is often called the Masoretic text . At the Reformation the Hebrew books...restricted the canon to the Hebrew text, and this narrower list was preferred...to preserving the correct Hebrew text—divided the books into...
LXX
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...time between 285 and 150 BCE, and was frequently revised. There are numerous differences between the LXX text and the Hebrew Masoretic text . The LXX, containing the books of the Apocrypha , became the scriptures of the early Christians.
God
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...heathen Baal in the Deuteronomist history and in Hosea 2. Yahweh occurs nearly 6,000 times in the OT, but in the Masoretic text (6th cent. CE ) the vowels of Adonai (‘my Lord’) were inserted into the ineffable name Yahweh...
Septuagint
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...translations (of Aquila, Theodotion, and Lucian). The LXX is a valuable check on the accuracy of the official Masoretic Hebrew text, which has also undergone revisions. There are 2nd-cent. BCE MSS fragments of the LXX among the Dead Sea scrolls...

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The Alpha-Text of Esther: Its Character and Relationship to the Masoretic Text
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Character and Relationship to the Masoretic Text, by Karen H. Jobes...as it compares to both the Masoretic Text (MT) and the so-called...process, jobes divides the texts of the AT, the MT, and the...to describe how closely the texts agree. She applies this scale...formal equivalence ...
The Earliest Text of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of the Septuagint Reconsidered.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of...among the Septuagint (LXX), Masoretic Text (MT), Syriac (S...aside the differences between text and versions due to lack of...scrutinizes Greek and Hebrew texts of Judges. He concludes that...others claim--that this ...
The Earliest Text of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of the Septuagint Reconsidered
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of...reconsideration of the development of the text of the Hebrew Bible, including...articles treating particular texts are the following: Natalio...those differences stem from text-critical variations within...
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies, 1995
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...articles concern masoretic texts. Joseph Ofer ("A Massoretic...pp. 127-53) publishes masoretic notes from two geniza fragments...as the second part of that masoretic work. Other authors treat topics relating to specific masoretic issues. Abraham Lieberman...manuscript tend to bring the ...
Exegetical implications of the Masoretic cantillation marks in Ecclesiastes.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...often noticed: the Masoretic punctuation of the...that the biblical text is sometimes punctuated...Jacob replies, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...this contradicts the Masoretic punctuation of the...the meaning of the text, often to match...suggested that the Masoretic punctuation does...
Alternate chapter divisions in the Pentateuch in the light of the Masoretic sections.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...are also cases where Masoretic sectional divisions are...the parameters of the text are then changed and...correspond with adjacent Masoretic paragraph divisions...establishing the parameters of a text which is one of the basic...these differences between Masoretic sectional divisions and...
The Syntax of Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Hebraists possess in accentual matters, James Price's Syntax of Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible represents a welcome addition...tradition of G. E. Weil) of machine-readable Biblical texts that can be exhaustively searched and analyzed. Price begins...musical motif and failing to repeat with the other ...
Observations on the third person masculine singular pronominal suffix -H in Hebrew biblical texts.(Report)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...these forms in the Masoretic Text. It then surveys...Hebrew biblical texts, in particular...implies that Hebrew texts exhibiting widespread...variation from the Masoretic Text pattern of spelling...he forms in the Masoretic Text. Second, the...evidenced in our ...
The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...hyparchetype of proto-M and its masoretic successors. From the archetype...developed. Many Palestinian texts could have been in circulation...exemplar of a protomasoretic text-the one chosen by the Pharisees...sup b^, but nonrabbinic masoretic texts circulated long after 70 C...
The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; The Text of Genesis 1-11...Using mainly the extant Masoretic and Samaritan texts along with the Greek...archetype, one definite text, is not a matter of...from the actual ancient texts of Genesis (or any...chapter, "Critical Text and Apparatuses...is identical with the Masoretic ...