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Continuity of the Tradition: Masorah with Midrashic Explanations*
Dpto. Filologia Biblica y Del Oriente Antiguo, Csic, Spain
This article examines three masoretic lists with midrashic explanations placed in appendix IV of codex M1 from the Complutensian University Library. The study shows the original final form of these three lists and their content suggests that the traditions that present textual commentaries in the midrashim up until medieval times coexisted with the Masorah.
* This is a revised version of a paper read at the Seventeenth Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies. The work on this study has been made possible by a postdoctoral contract from the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. It forms part of the research project 'Edición de textos bíblicos y parabíblicos (Biblia Poliglota Matritense)' directed by Prof. Natalio Fernández Marcos.