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1. Masoretes

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   In addition to vowels, the Masoretes introduced the te'amim (accents or musical tropes). These marks serve a dual function: first, they dictate the melodic pattern for liturgical chanting in the synagogue, and second, and perhaps more crucially, they establish the precise syntactical parsing of the verse, clarifying ambiguities in word division and emphasis that the vowels alone could not resolve.
   The system comprises approximately 25 primary signs, which are…