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• Die Alttestamentlichen Lektionen der Griechischen Kirche (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1915), by Alfred Rahlfs (PDF at the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)
• The sacred books of the Old Testament; a critical edition of the Hebrew text printed in colors (J. C. Hinrichs;, 1893), by Paul Haupt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A contribution to Biblical lexicography (Columbia university press, 1924), by Israel Eitan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurzer hand-commentar zum Alten Testament (Verlag von J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1897), by Karl Marti, G. Wildeboer, Heinrich Holzinger, Bernhard Duhm, Karl Budde, Alfred Bertholet, and I. Benzinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Programm zur Eröffnung des jüdisch-theologischen Seminars zu Breslau : Fränckel'sche Stiftung den 16. Ab 5614./10. August 1954. (W.G. Korn, 1854), by Germany) Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau and Zacharias Frankel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Massoretic notes contained in the edition of the Hebrew scriptures published by the British and foreign Bible society. (The British and foreign Bible society, 1905), by John Holland Ritson and A. S. Geden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Holy Bible, or The books accounted sacred by Jews and Christians : otherwise called the books of the Old and New Covenants / Volume I[-II]. (Printed for the author by J. Davis, and sold by R. Faulder ... and J. Johnson ..., 1792), by Alexander Geddes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bibel des Josephus : untersucht für Buch V-VII der Archäologie (In Kommission bei Jaeger & Kober, 1895), by Adam Mez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical notes on the text of the Old Testament writings (A. and C. Black, 1903), by T. K. Cheyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the massoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (Trinitarian Bible Society, 1897), by Christian D. Ginsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proofs of the interpolation of the vowel-letters in the text of the Hebrew Bible and grounds thence derived for a revision of its authorized English version (Whittaker ;, 1857), by Charles William Wall (page images at HathiTrust)
• ʻEsrim ve-arbaʻah sifre ha-ḳodesh : meduyaḳim heṭev ʻal pi ha-Masorah ve-ʻal pi defusim rishonim, ʻim ḥilufim ve-hagahot min kitve yad ʻatiḳim ve-targumim yeshenim ([s.n.], 1894), by Christian D. Ginsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistola ad celeberrimum professorem Joannem Davidem Michaelis, de censura primi tomi Bibliorum Hebraicorum nuper editi, in Bibliotheca ejus Orientali, parte XI. (Apud Rivington, 1777), by Benjamin Kennicott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emendationen zum Alten Testamente mit grammatischen und historischen Erörterungen (Universitätsbuchhandlung, J. C. F. von Maack, 1826), by Justus Olshausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kethib-qere, A study of the (The Dropsie college for Hebrew and cognate learning, 1937), by Robert Gordis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical and expository observations on the prophecy of Messiah in Isaiah Chapter IX. (University Press, 1848), by William Selwyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The printed Hebrew text of the Old Testament vindicated : an answer to Mr. Kennicott's dissertation. (Oxford , 1753), by Fowler Comings (page images at HathiTrust)
• In sacra Biblia Graeca ex versione LXX. interpretum scholia : simul et interpretum caeterorum lectiones variantes. (Excudebat Rogerus Daniel :, 1653), by John Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analekten zur textkritik des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge. (Gustav Engel, 1922), by F. Perles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Emendationes in plerosque Sacrae Scripturae Veteris Testamenti libros, secundum veterum versiones nec non auxiliis criticis caeteris adhibitis. (S. Schottlaender;, 1892), by Heinrich Graetz and Wilhelm Bacher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der masoretische Text des Alten Testaments : nach der Überlieferung der babylonischen Juden (J.C. Hinrichs, 1902), by Paul Kahle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forschungen nach einer Volksbibel zur zeit Jesu, und deren Zusammenhang mit der Septuaginta-Übersetzung. (Wilhelm Braumüller, 1873), by Eduard Böhl (page images at HathiTrust)
• ha-Ketav ṿeha-mikhtav : le-Torah Neviʼim u-Khetuvim...ṿe-nispaḥ lo perush u-veʼur Ḳatsar ṿe-targum Ashkenaz. (Druḳ fun Ḳ. Bodṿayzer, 1875), by Abraham Krochmal (page images at HathiTrust)
• General introduction to the Old Testament : the text (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by William Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Beurtheilung der Septuaginta : eine Würdigung Wellhausenscher Textkritik (Max Schmersow, 1902), by Gustav Jahn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über die Notwendigkeit und Möglichkeit : einer neuen Ausgabe der hebräischen Bibel : Studien und Erwägungen (A. Deichert (Georg Böhme), 1902), by Rudolf Kittel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Aramaismen im Alten Testament. I. Lexikalischer Teil. (M. Niemeyer, 1902), by E. Kautzsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The true text of the Old Testament : with some remarks on the language of the Jews (Johnstone, Hunter, & Co., 1873), by James Brodie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hebrew text of the Old Testament, rev. from critical sources; being an attempt to present a purer and more correct text than the received one of Van der Hooght ... (S. Bagster and sons, 1856), by Samuel Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient documents and the modern Bible : a story of the Rabbis and the ancient manuscripts (James Pott, 1800), by J. Paterson Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noten zum hebräischen Texte des Alten Testaments : nebst einer Uebersetzung des Buches Hiob, und einem grammatischen Anhang. (In Commission bei J. G. Bahnmaier, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Codex criticus of the Hebrew Bible, wherein in Van der Hooght's text is corrected from the Hebrew manuscripts collated by Kennicott and De Rossi, and from the ancient versions; being an attempt to form a standard text of the Old Testament ... (Ogle, Duncan, & co.; [etc., etc.], 1821), by George Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil des travaux rédigés en mémoire du jubilé scientifique de M. Daniel Chwolson, 1846-1896 (S. Calvary & Co., 1899), by David Günzburg and D. A. Khvol'son (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Variae lectiones Veteris Testamenti : ex immensa Mss. editorumq. codicum congerie haustae et ad Samar. textum, ad vetustiss. versiones, ad accuratiores sacrae criticae fontes ac leges examinatae (Ex Regio typographeo, 1784), by Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vollstaendigere Kritik ueber die gewoehnlichen Ausgaben der hebraeischen Bibel : nebst einer naehern zuverlaessigen Nachricht von der hebraeischen Bibel, welche der sel. D. Luther bey seiner Ueberstzung gebraucht (Im Verlag der Buchhandlung der Realschule, 1766), by Benjamin Wilhelm Daniel Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (full serial archives)

• The old documents and the new Bible an easy lesson for the people in biblical criticism : the Old Testament (S. Bagster;, 1890), by J. Paterson Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Geoffrey Khan
  • Volume I: multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume II: multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
• The ten nequdoth of the Torah; or, The meaning and purpose of the extraordinary points of the Pentateuch (Massoretic text) A contribution to the history of textual criticism among the ancient Jews (J. H. Furst company, 1906), by Romain F. Butin and Shemaryahu Talmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masoreten des Ostens; die ältesten punktierten handschriften des Alten Testaments und der Targume (J.C. Hinrichs, 1913), by Paul Kahle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die aussermasorethischen Übereinstimmungen zwischen der Septuaginta und der Peschittha in der Genesis (A. Töpelmann, 1911), by Johannes Hänel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biblia hebraica manvalia ad praestantiores editiones accvrata. Accesservnt I. Analysis et explicatio variantivm lectionvm, quas kethibh et kri vocant. II. Interpretatio epicriseon masorethicarvm singvlis libris biblicis svbiectarvm. III. Explicatio notarvm marginalivm textvi s. hinc inde additarvm. IV. Vocabvlarivm omnium vocvm Veteris Testamenti hebraicarvm et chaldaicarvm denvo emendativs editvm. (svmtibvs Orphanotrophei, 1822), by Ern. Frid. Car. Rosenmüller and Johann Simonis (page images at HathiTrust)
• ʻEṭ sofer Le-Radaḳ : neʻetaḳ mi-gilyon Tanakh ... be-otsar ha-sefarim be-Fariz. (be-defus R. Zibarṭ, 1969), by David Kimhi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Biblia hebraica. (ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, 1869), by Franz Delitzsch and S. Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Shemuʻel = Liber Samuelis : textum Masoreticum accuratissime expressit, e fontibus Masorae varie illustravit, notis criticis confirmavit (Bernhardi Tauchnitz, 1892), by S. Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible, Hebrew and English (Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867), by approximately 1470- approximately 1538 Jacob ben Chajim Ibn Adonijah and Christian D. Ginsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems of the Masora (Press of the Jewish Publication Society, 1943), by Alexander Sperber and vol. 17 Hebrew Union college annual (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Sefer Mishle] = Liber proverbiorum : textum Masoreticum accuratissime expressit e fontibus Masorae codicumque varie illustravit expositionem de legibus dagessationis adjecit (Ex Officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, 1880), by S. Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• ʻEṭ sofer : [ḳitsur mi-ʻinyene ha-masorah ṿeha-ṭeʻamim]... (Bi-defus R. Ziberṭ, 1864), by David Kimhi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die babylonisch punktierte Handschrift no. 1546 der II. Firkowitschschen Sammlung (Codex Tschufutkale no.3) (Druck von W. Drugulin in Leipzig, 1905), by Johann Weerts and Abraham Firkowitsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Massora magna, nach den ältesten Drucken mit Zuziehung alter Handschriften (Hannover [etc.], 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertatio philologica de notabili correctionum Masorethicarum genere (Batav. :, 1778), by Joannes van Voorst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sebirin : der massoreten von Tiberias (Schottlaender, 1895), by Julius Reach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheloshah maʼmarim (Yosef b.r. Menaḥem min Rom, 1868), by Mordecai Plungian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mishpaḥat sofrim (bi-defus ha-almanah ṿeha-aḥim Rom, 1883), by Samuel Rosenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical notes on the Old Testament: Wherein The present Hebrew text is explained, and in many places amended, from the ancient Versions, more particularly from that of the LXXII. Drawn up in the order the several books were written, or may most conveniently be read. To which is prefix'd, A large Introduction, adjusting the Authority of the Masoretic Bible, and vindicating it from the Objections of Mr. Whiston, and the Author of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion. (Printed for C. Davis. ..., 1734), by William Wall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The note-line in the Hebrew scriptures commonly called pâsêq, or pĕsîq. (Clark, 1903), by James Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liber Iobi : textum Masoreticum collatis praestantissimis codicibus instauravit atque ex fontibus Masorae illustravit (Ex Officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, 1875), by Franz Delitzsch and S. Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the massoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (Trinitarian Bible Society, 1897), by Christian D. Ginsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• ʻEṭ sofer [ḳitsur me-ʻinyene ha-mesorah ṿeha-ṭeʻamim] neʻetaḳ mi-gilyon Tanakh be-Otsar ha-sefarim be-Pariz (Bi-defus R. Zibert, 1864), by David Kimhi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jedidjah Salomo Norzi's Einleitung, Titelblatt und Schlusswort zu seinem masoretischen Bibelcommentar (Winter, 1876), by Jedidiah Solomon Raphael ben Abraham Norzi and Adolph Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Okhlah ṿe-okhlah : ve-hu ḥibur meha-Masorah ha-gedolah : nimtsa bi-k.y. yashan be-vet otsar ha-sefarim shel ha-Ḳesar ba-ʻir Paris (Hahnshe Hofbukhhandlung, 1864), by S. Frensdorf and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die massoretischen Akzente; eine Darlegung ihres Systems nebst Beiträgen zum Verständnis ihrer Entwicklung (Akademie-Verlag, 1927), by Arthur Spanier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Samaritan Pentateuch, an adaptation of the massoretic text ([Buchdr. für fremde sprachen M. Schersow, Kirchhain, N. L.], 1923), by Ḥayyim Heller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masoret seyag la-Torah. (Bi-defus Yitsḥaḳ di Pas, 1750), by Meir Abulafia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hebraismus facilitati & integritati restitutus: I. Nova Grammatica,, compendiosâ simul & absolutisima...II. Institutione methodicâ acentuationis Hebræ...III. Vindiciis Sacræ Scripturæ Hebrææ... : quibus (I) originalis authentia divina, tàm vocalium & accentium (Typis J. Kilii ; J. Reuchmann, 1664), by Matthias Wasmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mare Rabinucum infidum. (Apud Petrum Varikuet, 1667), by Claudius Cappellanus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biblia Hebraica manualia. (Sumtibus Orphanotrophei, 1822), by Johannes Simonis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Shemuʻel = Liber Samuelis : textum Masoreticum accuratissime expressit, e fontibus Masorae varie illustravit, notis criticis confirmavit (Bernhardi Tauchnitz, 1892), by S. Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Mefaʻaneaḥ neʻelamim (s.n., 1826), by Cabalist Benjamin ben Mordecai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kethib-qere, A study of the (The Dropsie college for Hebrew and cognate learning, 1937), by Robert Gordis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Okhlah ṿe-ʾokhlah. (Hanshe hofbukhhandlung, 1864), by S. Frensdorff and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masoret ha-masoret. (Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1867), by Christian D. Ginsburg and Elijah Levita (page images at HathiTrust)
• ha-Masorah ʻal pi kitve yad ʻatiịm ... (Makor, 1971), by Christian D. Ginsburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ha-Mĕsillōt le-S̋ar ben-Ḥayil ha-ådullāmī . (Matz, 1875), by Ṣimḥa Reuben Edelmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masorah ha-gedolah. ([Cohen-Risch], 1876), by S. Frensdorff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masoret seyag la-Torah ([s.n.], 1760), by Meir Abulafia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der masoretische Text des Alten Testaments : nach der Überlieferung der babylonischen Juden (J.C. Hinrichs, 1902), by Paul Kahle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das hermeneutische element der biblischen accentuation. Ein beitrag zur geschichte der hebräischen sprache (S. Calary u. co., 1893), by Aaron Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masoretische untersuchungen. (K.J. Trübner, 1891), by Lajos Blau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien zum althebräischen Buchwesen und zur biblischen Litteraturgeschichte (K.J. Trübner, 1902), by Lajos Blau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Textus Psalmorum Massorethicus : omnibus versionibus antiquissimis diligentissime comparatis (Mayer et Mueller, 1894), by Paulus Johannes Bachmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Massorah and the Massoretic text. (The Trinitarian Bible Society, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dikduke ha-teamim (L. Pernoy, 1879), by Aaron ben Moses Ben-Asher, Hermann Leberecht Strack, and S. Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Massorah (Makor, 1970), by Christian D. Ginsburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lehrgedicht über die Accente der biblischen Bücher [EMeT] : nebst Commentar von Joseph b. Kalonymos (in der 2. Hälfte des 13. Säculums) ... (Rosenstein & Hildesheimer, 1886), by Abraham Berliner and fl. 13th cent Joseph ben Kalonymus ha-Nakdan (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Tehilim] [ch. 34-59, 79-91, 105-106, 109-111]. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 13rd century), by Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Mishle] [19:7-30:29]. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 12nd century), by Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mevo ha-Masorah (Defus A. Ginez, 1862), by mi-Ḳosoṿye Yosef Ḳalman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die konsonatischen Varianten in den doppelt überlieferten poetischen Stücken des massoretischen Textes. (Leipzig, 1905), by Friedrich Vodel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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