The nakdanim were a group of Jewish scholars, active between the 9th and 14th centuries, who added accents and vowels to biblical texts. They were the...

still widely used, as well as the trope symbols used for cantillation. The nakdanim were successors to the Masoretes in the transmission of the traditional...

so much a punctuator of the Bible himself but hailed from a family of Nakdanim. Joseph Jacobs argued that Berechiah lived in England toward the end of...