Masoretic Accents

LECTURE NOTES: PDF of Lecture Notes

QUIZLET SET for review (star the ones specific to your lesson): https://quizlet.com/365716737/major-masoretic-disjunctive-d-and-conjunctive-c-accents-cantillation-marks-flash-cards/

QUIZ: CLICK HERE (Open book/notes)

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RESOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY

*NEW*: Futato, Basics of Hebrew Accents - links to print book - (Excellent, readable, useful introduction accessible to beginners and beyond); also available on Logos.com

Park, Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents (Intermediate to Advanced)

Standard book on the topic:

• Israel Yeivin, An Introduction to the Tiberian Masorah (translated by E. J. Revell)

Links to free resources:

• BHS Insert / Acccent Reference (PDF download)

• Gesenius' Overview of Accent System (webpage)

• William Barrick, "The Masoretic Hebrew Accents in Translation and Interpretation" (PDF)

• Russell Fuller, "John Owen and the Traditional Protestant View of the Old Testament" (online article with PDF link)

• John Gill, A Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel-Points, and Accents (free digital book in Kindle or epub formats)

• Marcus Leman, "Reading with the Masoretes: The Exegetical Value of the Masoretic Accents"

• Sung Jin Park, "'Pointing to the Accents in the Scroll': The Functional Development of the Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible" PDF at Academia.edu

• Sophia Lynn Pitcher, "Towards the development of an intonation-based prosodic model for the masoretic cantillation accents of Tiberian Hebrew" - Page with link to PDF - M.A. Thesis, University of the Free State (South Africa)

• James D. Price, The Syntax of Masoretic Accents in the Hebrew Bible (PDF)

• E. J. Revell, "The Oldest Evidence for the Hebrew Accent System" (PDF)

Biblical Manuscripts Viewable Online (also free)

• Leningrad Codex - c. AD 1008

• Washington Pentateuch (Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C.) - c AD 1000

Additional Free Online Tools:

Quantified Cantillation - Find specific accent patterns in the Torah - https://quantifiedcantillation.nl/

Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible - https://tiberias.dicta.org.il/

Analytical Tools for Hebrew Texts - http://dicta.org.il/index.html

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