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   Masoretes
   (from the article `biblical literature`) By the beginning of the Middle Ages the Masoretes of Babylonia and Palestine (6th–10th century) had fixed in writing, by points and annotation, the ... No biblical manuscripts have survived from the six centuries that separate the latest of the Judaean Dese...
   Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/45
   
   
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   Masoretes
   The Masoretes (ba`alei hamasorah, Hebrew בעלי המסורה) were groups of mostly Karaite scribes and scholars working between the 7th and 11th centuries, based primarily in present-day Israel in the cities of Tiberias and Jerusalem, as well as in Iraq (Babylonia). Each group compiled a system ...
   Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretes
   
   

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