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A Guide to Understanding Masoretic Vowel Signs
A Deeper Look into Biblical Hebrew Vowel Signs and Their Phonetic Legacy
Biblical Hebrew, with its rich linguistic tradition, uses a unique system of signs that evolved to capture the pronunciation of vowels, an addition made centuries after the consonantal text was established. Understanding these vowel signs requires not only a look at the signs themselves but also at the meticulous work of the Masoretes, a group of Jewish scholars who sought to preserve the traditional pronunciation of the biblical text.… Learn Hebrew