At that precarious moment in the history of rabbinic authority and Jewish textuality, certain rabbis sought to maintain a distinction between the Torah scroll and a codex, protecting the Torah scroll as the privileged ritual object of liturgical reading.A deep dive into the background of Masoretic vocalization, punctuation, and ornamentation of Torah scrolls.
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