Prof. Geoffrey Khan is the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, as well as honorary doctorates from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Uppsala. Khan is a Fellow of the British Academy Search Results, an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, and an Honorary Member of the American Oriental Society. Among his many publications are The Early Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammatical Thought, Exegesis and Grammar in Medieval Karaite Texts, the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (editor), A Short Introduction to the Tiberian Masoretic Bible and Its Reading Tradition, and The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (2 vols.).
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Three traditions of pronouncing the Hebrew Bible existed in the first millennium C.E.: Babylonian, Palestinian, and Tiberian, each with its own written vocalization system. From the later Middle Ages on, however, biblical manuscripts have been written almost exclusively with the vowels and cantillation marks of the Tiberian system while paradoxically, the Tiberian pronunciation itself fell into oblivion.
Three traditions of pronouncing the Hebrew Bible existed in the first millennium C.E.: Babylonian, Palestinian, and Tiberian, each with its own written vocalization system. From the later Middle Ages on, however, biblical manuscripts have been written almost exclusively with the vowels and cantillation marks of the Tiberian system while paradoxically, the Tiberian pronunciation itself fell into oblivion.
