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[Erik L. F. Contzius <contzius...>]

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"Cantillation"
from the Encyclopedia of Judaism, Jerusalem, 1989, by Eliyahu Schleifer


"The cantillation of Scripture is expected to adhere to the signs 
called t'amim. These were developed together with the punctuation 
signs in Babylonia and Eretz Yisrael during the Talmudic and 
post-Talmudic periods; they were first transmitted orally and were 
later codified in various notation systems, the fullest and most 
important of which was the one developed by the Masoretic school of 
Tiberias in the ninth and tenth centuries CE. The Tiberian sages 
assigned three functions to the accents (t'amim): (a) to show the 
proper accentuation of the words, (b) to divide the biblical verses 
properly and thus to help preserve the acceptable interpretation of 
the text, and (c) to indicate the melodic patterns which should be 
used with each part of the verse. Due to the last function, the signs 
are also called neginot (melodies). The codices compiled by these 
scholars (the most famous of which are the Crown of Aleppo, of c.920 
CE, now in Jerusalem, and the Leningrad Codex of c.1010) have been 
accepted as the authorized versions of the Hebrew Bible."
-- 
Cantor Erik L. F. Contzius
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
Elkins Park, PA
contzius (at) home(dot)com
http://www.kenesethisrael.org/

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