Text of the Hebrew Scriptures standardized around 100 C.E. and preserved and handed down by the Jews ever since. The name derives from the Masoretes, a medieval school of Jewish biblical scholars who regularized transmission of the text by developing a sophisticated system of annotation and punctuation.
the text of the Bible produced by the Masoretes.
The vocalized text of the Hebrew Bible, prepared by a group of Jewish scholars around A.D. 700 to preserve the oral pronunciation of the Hebrew words.
(MT) A shorthand way of referring to the text commonly used in biblical scholarship, Leningrad B19A.
refers to the received text of the Hebrew Old Testament as punctuated and furnished with vowel points by the Masoretes, the authoritative teachers of Scriptural tradition; it was developed between the 7th and the 10th cent. A. D. and is the basis of all modern critical texts of the Hebrew Old Testament (Soulen, Handbook of Biblical Criticism).
The standard text of the Hebrew Old Testament. It is very carefully transcribed.
the basic Hebrew text of the Old Testament, used for centuries in schools and synagogues. It was produced by the Masoretes, a school of rabbis in Palestine and Babylonia in the eighth and ninth centuries AD who were the preservers of the Old Testament writings.
The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Tanakh as generally used in Judaism. It is also widely used in translations of the Hebrew Bible, commonly referred to as the Old Testament of the Protestant Bible, and in recent decades also for Roman Catholic Bibles. It was primarily copied, edited and distributed by a group of Jews known as the Masoretes between the seventh and tenth centuries CE.
