Nusach Ha-mikra – Accuracy of the Biblical Text

Classical commentators raise different exegetical possibilities that seem to resemble proposals for emending the text. However, they do so within the framework of commentary on the existing text, with an awareness of the various linguistic phenomena that characterize Biblical literature rather than proposing emendations to a text they view as corrupt. Two such phenomena are the exchangeability of similar letters and letter or words that should be read as though repeated.