1.0. Preliminary Remarks The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew was regarded as prestigious and authoritative in the medieval Middle East. It is likely that the authoritativeness of the Tiberian tradition had its roots primarily in its association with the Palestinian Yeshiva ‘Academy’, the central body of Jewish communal authority in Palestine, which was based in Tiberias from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. The Masoretes were closely associated with the Palestinian Ye...