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1 - Introduction to Tiberian Hebrew Accents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2020

Sung Jin Park
Sung Jin Park
Affiliation:
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City
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Summary

Chapter One lays a foundation for understanding the masoretic accentuation system. There are three masoretic traditions: Babylonian, Palestinian, and Tiberian. Each tradition has different graphemes for the vowel and accent signs. The Babylonian and Palestinian traditions were eventually supplanted by the Tiberian system, considered the best tradition because its system of vocalization and accentuation is the most comprehensive and sophisticated of the three. A brief overview of the masoretic traditions and two kinds of Hebrew accents, disjunctive and conjunctive accents, in the Twenty-One Books are introduced. The twenty-eight Hebrew accents’ names and their accentual positions are also introduced.

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TiberianBabylonianPalestinianHebrewDisjunctive accentsConjunctive accentsThe Twenty-One BooksThe Three BooksAccentual positionsPrepositivePostpositive
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The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents
Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyond Syntax
 , pp. 1 - 9
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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