Masoretic Text - Masoretes | The TRUTH Bible Program

Many faith traditions have helped accurately preserve the text of the Bible over the centuries! Not the least of which were the Masoretes, groups of Jewish scribe-scholars in the Middle Ages. They recognized the inevitability of human error and to assure the accuracy of the biblical text, added notes to the margins and vowel points to the words. One of the oldest and most spectacular of the Masoretic manuscripts is the Aleppo Codex. Written by a renowned Masorete, the Aleppo Codex originally con

How did we go from bene Elohim (sons of God) to bene Yisrael (sons of Israel) in Deuteronomy 32:8? Somewhere, we don't know when, we don't know if it was in the intertestamental period, or whether it was at the period of text standardization in 100 AD, we don't know when this happened. But here's what a scribe did. Somebody changed the text to remove "sons of God" and insert "sons of Israel". We don't know when that happened, but we know that it did. We know that it did because this is what the