Hebrew
The Poetic Accents
For any reader transitioning from the extensive narrative prose of Genesis or Kings to the opening folios of the Psalter in a classical Tiberian Masoretic codex, the graphic landscape of the Hebrew…
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Hebrew
The Masorah Parva and Masorah Magna
The text of the Hebrew Bible, as it now sits between the covers of a printed Mikraot Gedolot or a single-volume Hebrew Tanakh, looks deceptively clean. Page after page of square Aramaic…
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William Wickes and the Hebrew Accents
In the spring of 1881, at the Clarendon Press in Oxford, a small octavo volume appeared under the title A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Three So-called Poetical Books of the…