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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08603	Masora. A collection out of the learned master Joannes Buxtorfius's Commentarius Masorethicus. / By Clement Barksdale.	Buxtorf, Johann, 1564-1629.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1665 (1665)	Wing B6348A; ESTC R221405	27,661	74

Grammer plainly saith Thus was the Custom of the wise men of Tiberias for of them were the Authors of the Masora and from them have we received all the pointing and often doth he mention those wise men in the same Book and commends them several times for their skil in reading and genuine pronuntiation his second in this opinion is Elias Levita a Jew of Germany and a Famous Grammarian in the Last age and one that in the explication of the whole Masora and particularly in the curious handling of this part got the praise from all the Rabbins of his people In sundry Prefaces to his Masoreth Hammasoreth his opinion touching the original of Masora and the Vowel points is this in short 1. That there were innumerable Authors of the Masora in divers ages 2. That the time of the beginning of them and the end is uncertain 3. That the Hebrews of Tiberias first wrote the Masora and invented the points of Vowels and of Accents after the Talmud was finished i. long after 500. years since our Saviour Christ Cap. 3. VII The City of Tiberias which produced the Masoreth of all the Jews most expert in the Hebrew Tongue was in the Land of Galilee seated near the Lake of Henne-Caroth of whose Rise and Scituation Josephus that noble and most antient Writer of the Jewish Affairs informs us Antiq. lib. 18. c. 3. And when after the desolation of Jerusalem by the Roman Army some Reliques of the Learned Jews escaped into Babylon and some remained in Palestin these by a little and little in the more commodious places and cities restored their Schools and Assemblies and this Tiberias was one of those Cities celebrated in the writing of the Hebrews and adorned with some Names of wise and learned men and enjoyed that honor till the year of Christ 230. after which time the Chronicles of the Hebrews relate nothing very memorable concerning Schools and the Studies of good learning in Judea for here Rabbi Jehuda aftet the publishing of the Jerusalem Talmud died in the same or the following year and after his death the Studens in Judea were dispersed and the Schools translated into Babylon Cap. 4. 5. VIII Thus the Schools of Judea as it were expiring with R. Jehuda the Saint their Light and Life and the principal Schollars being removed about the year 230. out of Palestin into Babylon there did they renew their Studies with great Fervor chiefly did the Profession of the Jewish Law flourish comprehended in the Book Mischna their Corpus Juris as it were This was the Subject of thei Lectures and Disputations so that afterward in the year after the destruction of the City 436. as Elias puts it that is of Christ 506 came forth the Babylonian Talmund distinct into six principal parts and Sixty three Books by which even until this day the whole Nation of the Jews are governed In the year of Christ 1037 then the Babylonian Schools were altogether extinguished the wise Masters vanished thence and fixed themselves in another Sphear in Spain and other parts of Europe as R. Abraham and other Writers testifie Cap. 6. IX It seems yet that all Learning did not die in Palestin with Rabbi Jehuda the Saint for though the Chronicles give us nothing memorable after him yet the Hebrew History makes mention of some Doctors of Schools in the Land of Israel as may be seen in Juchasin fol. 106. In the year of Christ 340. Hillel Hannasi was famous among the Jews both a Philosopher and excellent Astronomer so that he made a new Compute and Jos Scaliger in his Book of De Emendatione Temp. p. 544. saith The new Compute was the worke of the Masters of Tyberias We read of none but this Hillel that reformed the Kalender therefore by the Masters of Tyberias we must understand Hillel the rather because all the Jews unto this day do follow his Computation and will follow it till the time of their Deliverer whom they expect as we see in Inchasin fol. 90. According to Scaliger then this Hillel lived in Tyberias and to that time Tyberias was not decayed Cap. 7. X. That something of the Schools in Palestin remained till this time appeareth by Schalschelet fol. 34. He R. Jehuda Nesia was the father of Rabbi Hillel the Prince who was promoted into a Master in the Land of Israel and the last of the promoted as may be seen in the Talmudical Book De Idololatria And in Tzemach David where is mention of this Hillel fol. 47. The promoted in the Jews of Israel ceased in him Now if Scholastical promotion here ceased it is very probable that professions and publick exercises ceased also being those Dignities are the rewards of an excellent learning ordained for the conservation and propagation of studies which is made more probable in that the Chronicles of the Hebrews relate nothing at all after this Hillel touching the Schools or Wise men of Palestin but pursue the Schools of Babylon to the last Cap. 7. XI Yet St. Hierom a very antient Writer of the Christian Church carries us a little farther For he when he translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin procured a Learned Jew from Tyberias whose help he used in the interpretation of the Book of Chronicles a certain Doctor of the Law admir'd among the Hebrews by whose assistance he was encouraged to go through with his translation as himself tell us in the preface to that Book Now St. Hierom as our Chronologers say ended his life at Bethelem in the year of Christ 420 or 422. I suppose he might be upon his interpretation about the year 400. being he spent some years about it and liv'd some years after it was finished to hear the censures of men for it or against it and to make his defence at sundry times Cap. 7. XII Thus we have searched into the studies of these Tyberians and followed them to the year 400. drawn on by some hope of finding the most wise College of Masoreths at Tyberias We have found indeed that learning after the waste of Jerusalem was a long time conserved in Palestin and especially in the City of Tyberias but being the Hebrew History pursues the course of studies and the several generations of wise men to a thousand years in Babylon and leaves off in Palestin or the Land of Israel about the year 340 ending with Hillel the Prince it is no way credible that after 500 or about 600. years from Christ or more so many mighty Scholars were extant at Tyberias who above all the Jews were most exercised in the Reading of holy Scriptures and were the authors of an invention so new so admired of such concernment to the most sober and most weighty handling of the sacred Letters and delivered the same without any witnesse without any history without any memory of Books delivered it I say as a divine Oracle to be accepted by all the Nation of the Jews yea by the whole world wheresoever