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How did jewish scribes check the work done when copies were made of the old testament? savestylesformat instructions?

Answer 1

Prior to the Common Era, there was no system in place to check how accurate copies of the Hebrew Scriptures were when they were recreated. The Jewish scribes came up with a system where the middle letter of the middle word of each and every book was numbered and noted. This provided a quick and very accurate system to check each manuscript. This system allowed texts to be copied and passed around with high accuracy.

Answer 2

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This is how the careful system of copying and transmitting the Old Testament books in Hebrew occurred. The chief scribes used a numerical system to check on the work of the younger scribes. When a copy of the Book of Psalms was made, after months of painstaking writing, a chief scribe would count every word, then every letter. He knew how many letters and words were in the original book. If the copy did not contain the correct number of words and letters, it was rejected and destroyed. The chief scribe also knew the middle letter and middle word of each of the Books of Psalms, and if these did not match the original, the copy was destroyed. In this careful way, the Hebrew writings containing the Psalter were transmitted down through the centuries