Aaron ben Moses ben Asher: Difference between revisions

[[Maimonides]] accepted the views of ben Asher only in regard to [[Parashah#Spacing techniques|open and closed sections]],{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}}<!-- Are you saying that Maimonides did not rely upon Ben-Asher in his understanding of the Masoretic [[plene and defective scriptum]]? You'll need to show proof of this. Maimonides says explicitly that, when he wrote his Torah scroll, he relied on the Codex that was proofread by Ben-Asher, which seems to imply that he relied upon him in all things. --> but apparently admired his work generally and helped to establish and spread his authority. Referring to a Bible manuscript then in Egypt, Maimonides wrote: "All relied on it, since it was corrected by ben Asher and was worked on and analyzed by him for many years, and was proofread many times in accordance with the masorah, and I based myself on this manuscript in the ''[[Sefer Torah]]'' that I wrote".<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Menachem |title=The Idea of the Sanctity of the Biblical Text |url=http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/CohenArt/ |website=users.cecs.anu.edu.au}}</ref>

 

 

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