vowel points

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…

Transmission

The Vowel-Point Controversy

For more than a century, Europe’s leading Hebraists argued over a question that sounds small: were the dots and dashes around the letters of the Hebrew Scriptures as old as the letters…