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Updated: May 28, 2025
The fact only remains that we have no manuscript of any portion of the Old Testament certainly known to be of a date prior to A.D. 916. The Massora, it may be mentioned, appears in two forms the Massora parva and the Massora magna. The Massora magna contained the above, and other matter deemed to be of importance in reference to the interpretation of the text.
That in this decision the Revisers had exercised the sound judgement which marks every part of their work cannot possibly be doubted by any competent reader. The Massoretic text has a long and interesting history. That the formation of the written Massora was a work of time seems a probable and reasonable supposition.
A very competent writer tells us that this formation may have extended from the sixth or seventh to the tenth or eleventh century. From the end of this Massoretic period onward the same writer tells us that the Massora became the great authority by which the text given in all the Jewish manuscripts was settled. All our manuscripts, in a word, are Massoretic.
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