Book of Word Pairs

The Masoretes were a group of scholars who developed the system of the Masorah (“tradition”), after which they are named. Aside from a few names from the later generations, especially from the Ben Asher family, we know very little about the Masoretes. They seem to have begun their work in the sixth century, and the last known member of the Ben Asher family, Aaron, probably lived around the beginning of the tenth century.