Lexicographical Neighbors of Sopherim
Literary usage of Sopherim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Theological Studies (1900)
"ANCIENT CORRECTIONS IN THE TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (Tikkun sopherim). THE student
of the Old Testament is so much accustomed to the story of the ..."
2. Manual of Historico-critical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the by Carl Friedrich Keil, George Cunninghame Monteath Douglas, Friedrich Bleek (1882)
"How the Text (sop») took firm Shape in the Age of the sopherim. There do not
exist any contemporaneous accounts, nor yet any domestic documents, ..."
3. Introduction to the Talmud: Historical and Literary Introduction. Legal by Moses Mielziner (1894)
"sopherim or scribes were the learned men who succeeded Ezra during a period of
about two hundred years. ... The sopherim are also called collectively n^njn ..."
4. History of the Jews by Heinrich Graetz, Philipp Boch (1891)
"... Jubilee and Sabbatical Year— Almsgiving — The Council of Seventy — The Assyrian
Characters— The Schools and the sopherim — Observance ot the Ceremonies ..."
5. History of the Jews by Heinrich Graetz, Philipp Bloch (1891)
"... Assyrian Characters—The Schools and the sopherim—Observance ot the Ceremonies—The
Prayers—The Future Life—The Judaeans under Artaxerxes II. and III. ..."
6. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther by Lewis Bayles Paton (1908)
"OTHER DESCENDANTS OF THE TEXT OF THE sopherim. § 7. MSS. WITH BABYLONIAN VOCALIZATION.
Back of the pointed text of the seventh century lies the unpointed ..."
7. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1863)
"13] when the sopherim decreed that it should be read without a Vox. ... Thus it
is evident that they [ie, the sopherim] made no wilful changes. ..."