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Thanks for your answer Sophiee. Sorry about sounding vague, but what I was getting at is.. where are older Hebrew copies of the Tanakh? I know the DSS were found.. but those books don't totally agree with the Masoretic text from my understanding. Now, I understand that the DSS texts could be "heretical", but I'm just kind of wondering where other pre-Masoretic texts are which match the Masoretic text aside from the vowel points. I realize texts can become old, and be burnt, etc.. so if that is the explanation for why there isn't, say for instance, a 4th century Hebrew text which exactly matches the Masoretic text, then I can understand that.
Also, on a different note, I saw something recently that interested me.. On a Chabad-Lubavitch website, it sees significance that in Nehemiah 2:13, a final mem is written as an open one, "mystically" signifying something Messianic. It then proceeds to to quote the "Midrash" as saying that the final mem being open signified the walls being "open" (broken), and that it'd be closed in the Messianic era. I checked this
www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt35b02.htm,
and it shows no open mem. So I am kind of confused. Just something I am throwing out there in the hope that you might know what I'm talking about, haha
Thanks.
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