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The Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe-scholars who worked from around the end of the 5th through 10th centuries CE, [1] [2] based primarily in the Jewish centers of the Levant (e.g., Tiberias and Jerusalem) and Mesopotamia (e.g., Sura and Nehardea). [3]
Timelines for Jewish History. The Dinur Center & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Interactive, searchable, filterable Jewish history timeline from the Gannopedia – Timeline from Abraham to the end of the Talmud i.e. 500 CE. Timeline for the History of Judaism; The History of the Jewish People The Jewish Agency
A sofer at work, Ein Bokek, Israel A sofer sews together the pieces of parchment A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Hebrew: סופר סת״ם, "scribe"; plural soferim, סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three terms) and other religious writings.
Most influential scribe of his generation (Post-war) Mordechai Pinchas: 20th and 21st centuries UK modern orthodox scribe www.sofer.co.uk: Aviel Barclay: 20th and 21st centuries Canada, first certified soferet of modern times Jen Taylor Friedman: 20th and 21st centuries First Torah by a soferet of modern times Julie Seltzer: 20th and 21st centuries
Articles related to the soferim, Jewish scribes who can transcribe sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), and mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם , is an abbreviation of these three terms), of the Five Megillot and other religious writings.
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Jewish tradition has long preserved a record of dates and time sequences of important historical events related to the Jewish nation, including but not limited to the dates fixed for the building and destruction of the Second Temple, and which same fixed points in time (henceforth: chronological dates) are well-documented and supported by ancient works, although when compared to the ...
Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), [1] if it can be considered Hebrew at that early a stage.