Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

On 2/27/05 11:28 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

> Presumably there was some such group of people who
> were the first to write down any particular point, although the pointing
> system may have evolved over time.
> 
> So, the sense I intended was that at this point the Aleppo Codex
> represents the pointing originally heard by the Masoretes and recorded
> in the first ever pointed text - or the first which noted dagesh in this
> kind of context.

OK, then the idea is that the pointed text came down to us from a single
source. 

Thanks Peter.


greetings,
Clay Bartholomew