Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Joseph Brian Tucker" <music AT riverviewcog.org>]

There are a few readings in the MT which are labelled  as Tiqqune sopherim, 
"the corrections of the scribes." Apparently these were not masoretic 
changes but earlier ones introduced to avoid "objectionable readings,"

I am interested in knowing if members of the list believe this tradition to 
be true? If not, how would you describe the history of the Tiqqune 
sopherim? Or, what other suggested traditions are there for the genesis of 
the Tiqqune sopherim?

Thanks
Brian Tucker
Riverview, MI
music AT riverviewcog.org