Volume 1 Periods Corpora and Reading Traditions Volume 2 Selected Texts Biblical Hebrew is studied worldwide by university students seminarians and the educated public. It is also studied almost universally through a single prismthat of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition which is the best attested and most widely available tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Thanks in large part to its endorsement by Maimonides it also became the most prestigious vocalization tradition in the Middle Ages. For most Bibl