Nehemia Gordon | Hebrew Voices #174 - How We Got Our Hebrew Bible - NehemiasWall.com @Nehemiaswall | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #174, How We Got Our Hebrew Bible, Nehemia brings on the world’s foremost expert in the Masoretic Text, Professor Yosef Ofer of Bar-Ilan University. They discuss how ancient Jewish scribes determined precisely which letters to copy, the primacy of the Aleppo Codex, and Maimonides’s preoccupation with dividing the biblical text into paragraphs.

VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:08 What is the Masora?
10:36 Masoretic decision-making
20:55 The Aleppo Codex & Masoretic comments
34:16 Maimonides & the uniformity of spaces
46:49 The Sassoon Codex
51:00 The two Masoretes
57:48 Outro

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