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Tiberian Hebrew

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Opening of the Shma (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) read in Tiberian Hebrew from the Leningrad Codex

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The Sound of the Biblical / Archaic Hebrew (Judahite) language (Numbers, Words & Sample Text)

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Four ways of reading Genesis 1:1-3 using Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation

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Reading of Psalm 113 in a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation

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Biblical Hebrew Alphabet Pronunciation (Tiberian Dialect)

Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Judea c. 750–950 CE. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics (nequdot) and the so-called accents. These together with the marginal notes masora magna and masora parva make up the Tiberian apparatus.