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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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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…

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