Masora מָסֹרָה
In the 17th century, Clement Barksdale gleaned some of the best points made by Johannes Buxtorf in his Commentarius Masoretichus, and distilled these into a small volume that we are presenting.
During the Reformation, Buxtorf was widely considered as the major expert on the Hebrew of Scripture.
Barksdale’s abridgement shows Buxtorf’s theory about the Hebrew text of Scripture: that not only were the letters or consonants inspired, but also the Hebrew vowel markings too. To prove his point, he shows the antiquity of the vowel and cantillation points from before the Talmud was written, and from the time of St. Jerome.
Buxtorf shows from Scripture and history that the vowel points were not introduced by a generation of rabbis in Tiberias known as the ‘Masoretes,’ but rather, stem from the days of Ezra and the Great Synagogue.
Paperback
113 pages
4.25 x 6.875
In the 17th century, Clement Barksdale gleaned some of the best points made by Johannes Buxtorf in his Commentarius Masoretichus, and distilled these into a small volume that we are presenting.
During the Reformation, Buxtorf was widely considered as the major expert on the Hebrew of Scripture.
Barksdale’s abridgement shows Buxtorf’s theory about the Hebrew text of Scripture: that not only were the letters or consonants inspired, but also the Hebrew vowel markings too. To prove his point, he shows the antiquity of the vowel and cantillation points from before the Talmud was written, and from the time of St. Jerome.
Buxtorf shows from Scripture and history that the vowel points were not introduced by a generation of rabbis in Tiberias known as the ‘Masoretes,’ but rather, stem from the days of Ezra and the Great Synagogue.
Paperback
113 pages
4.25 x 6.875
In the 17th century, Clement Barksdale gleaned some of the best points made by Johannes Buxtorf in his Commentarius Masoretichus, and distilled these into a small volume that we are presenting.
During the Reformation, Buxtorf was widely considered as the major expert on the Hebrew of Scripture.
Barksdale’s abridgement shows Buxtorf’s theory about the Hebrew text of Scripture: that not only were the letters or consonants inspired, but also the Hebrew vowel markings too. To prove his point, he shows the antiquity of the vowel and cantillation points from before the Talmud was written, and from the time of St. Jerome.
Buxtorf shows from Scripture and history that the vowel points were not introduced by a generation of rabbis in Tiberias known as the ‘Masoretes,’ but rather, stem from the days of Ezra and the Great Synagogue.
Paperback
113 pages
4.25 x 6.875
