<Li> The Qere Kethib marginal notes give variant readings only of the letters, never of the points, an indication either that these were added later or that, if they already existed, they were seen as not so important . </Li> <Li> The Kabbalists drew their mysteries only from the letters and completely disregarded the points, if there were any . </Li> <Li> In several cases, ancient translations from the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint, Targum, Aquila of Sinope, Symmachus, Theodotion, Jerome) read the letters with vowels different from those indicated by the points, an indication that the texts from which they were translating were without points . The same holds for Origen's transliteration of the Hebrew text into Greek letters . Jerome expressly speaks of a word in Habakkuk 3: 5, which in the present Masoretic Text has three consonant letters and two vowel points, as being of three letters and no vowel whatever . </Li> <Li> Neither the Jerusalem Talmud nor the Babylonian Talmud (in all their recounting of Rabbinical disputes about the meaning of words), nor Philo nor Josephus, nor any Christian writer for several centuries after Christ make any reference to vowel points . </Li>

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