This vast heterogeneous mass of traditions and criticisms, compiled and embodied in writing, forms what is known as the Masorah, i.e. Tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Cabbalists, so those who studied and taught the Masorah were called the. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
Masorah may also be considered as a kind of glossary to the Hebrew. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
In the sixth century the school of Tiberias produced the celebrated Masorah, or fixed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The Samaritan Josue recently discovered, resembles the Sept. more closely than the Masorah. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
The high reputation of this authorized translation is shown by the fact that it has a Masorah of its own. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
"The Masorah has not confided to thee her secrets and the Mischna has not revealed to thee her mysteries.". From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
The upper and lower margins are generally occupied by the Masorah, sometimes by rabbinical commentaries, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Masorah zum O. (Amsterdam, 1896); BREDERECK, Concordanz zum T.O. (Giessen, 1906); IDEM, Uber die Art der Ubersetzung im T.Onk. in. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
St. Jerome's version is one of his most careful efforts at translation of the Masorah, and is of the greatest exegetical importance. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Another MS. (B, No. 3) containing the prophets, on parchment, in small folio, although only dating, according to the inscription, from A.D. 916 and furnished with a Masorah, is a yet greater treasure. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The great feature of his work lay in the correction of the text by the precepts of the Masorah, in which he was profoundly skilled, and on which, as well as on the text itself, his labors were employed. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The date of a MS. is ordinarily given in the subscription but as the subscriptions are often concealed in the Masorah or elsewhere, it is occasionally difficult to find them: occasionally also it is difficult to decipher them. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
But in other cases the shorter recension of the Septuagint, amounting to about 100 words, which can be opposed to its large lacunæ, as compared with the Masorah, are sufficient proof that considerable liberty was taken in its preparation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Kinôth was removed, as a poetic work, from the collection of prophetic books and placed among the Kethúhîm, or Hagiographa, cannot be quoted as a decisive argument against its Jeremiac origin, as the testimony of the Septuagint, the most important witness in the forum of Biblical criticism, must in a hundred other cases correct the decision of the Masorah. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
As I have been thinking through the significance of Hillel in the framework of changing modes of leadership and transmission of the Masorah in the turbulent times in which Jewry found itself about a hundred years before the Destruction of the Second Temple, I came across a significant body of scholarship that argues that the figure of the founder of Christianity was modeled in many ways after the character of Hillel. From Wordnik.com. [avakesh] Reference
Masorah; the Vulgate often differs from all three (iii, 4; iv, 3, 13. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Aquila and Theodotion follow the reading of Masorah and, in Ps. viii, translate the title hyper tes getthitidos; yet this same reading is said by Bellarmine ( "Explanatio in Psalmos", Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Nesiga and the History of the Masorah, "Estudios Masoréticos. From Wordnik.com. [DailyHebrew.com] Reference
For me, the Masorah, and only the Masorah. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
But the Masorah tells us it must be read by Jod. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Commentary on the Masorah. From Wordnik.com. [parshablog] Reference
Masorah, which signifieth "tradition.". From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
Deuteronomy, as in Masorah to Deut., xvii, 18. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
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