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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 ...books of Daniel, Ezra, and Jeremiah). The text of the Hebrew Bible (called the Masoretic text, see Masora ) had been standardized by the...see Dead Sea Scrolls ). The origin of the Masoretic version is unknown. The original Old Testament...
Vulgate
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...405, Jerome used the Hebrew Masoretic text, with the aid of several rabbis...to parallel it with the Hebrew Masoretic text; and the later Hebrew Psalter, a new translation of the Hebrew Masoretic text. Texts of the Vulgate now contain...
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...
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...
Masora
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...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...See R. Gordis, Biblical Text in the Making (1937, repr...

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...
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.
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 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 Earliest Text of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of the Septuagint...differences among the Septuagint (LXX), Masoretic Text (MT), Syriac (S), Targums (T...
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 ; The Alpha-Text of Esther: Its Character and Relationship to the Masoretic Text, by Karen H. Jobes. SBLDS 153...of Esther as it compares to both the Masoretic Text (MT) and the so-called Septuagint...
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 ; ADRIAN SCHENKER (ed.), The Earliest Text of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship between the Masoretic Text and the Hebrew Base of the Septuagint Reconsidered...reconsideration of the development of the text of the Hebrew Bible, including a reappraisal...
Exegetical implications of the Masoretic cantillation marks in Ecclesiastes.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...desire to preserve the indeterminability of the text. ********** The Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible includes not only the consonants...Instead of the slight pause of the pashta in the Masoretic text, (3) they read the phrase as if [TEXT NOT...
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 ; ...correspond with adjacent Masoretic paragraph divisions...division of the biblical text into chapters is commonly...Latin Vulgate as his text it would not to be expected...would correspond with the Masoretic paragraph divisions which...based on the Hebrew text. (2) What is remarkable...
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 ; ...the second part of that masoretic work. Other authors treat...topics relating to specific masoretic issues. Abraham Lieberman...manuscript tend to bring the text closer to the Ben Asher...topic, Aron Dotan ("Masoretic Schools in the Light of...
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 to...musical motif and failing to repeat with the other [UNKNOWN TEXT OMITTED] in doubly accented verses (e.g., Gen. 35...
Habakkuk 3:16--where did the TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] go?(Report)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...exegetes that choose to maintain the Masoretic Text interpret the [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...IN ASCII] of Hab 3:16 in the Masoretic Text, given in (1), choose the...explains the text as it stands in the Masoretic Text? Unfortunately, those few who...
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 ; ...last chapter, "Critical Text and Apparatuses," illustrates...archetype is identical with the Masoretic text for the most part, but...archetype, especially since "Masoretic accents are not included in the critical text because of the technical...
The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...struggled with textual problems in the masoretic text, including changes in the form...adopted as normative over the masoretic text. The distinguished translators...H. weighs the value of the masoretic text vis-d-vis the Septuagint...