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1. Masorah

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   The codification of the Masorah arose from a perceived fragility in the consonantal text tradition inherited from earlier textual critics (see Scribes (biblical)/)). While the consonantal skeleton of the text was largely fixed by the Second Temple period\], divergences in pronunciation and the ambiguity of unpointed Hebrew script necessitated an authoritative system of textual guidance. Early forms of Masoretic notation, sometimes referred to as 'Tibbniyot (foundational markers), date back to the [Geo…