Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or
Tanakh committed to writing by
Masoretic scholars living in the
Jewish community of
Tiberias in ancient
Judea . They wrote in the form of
Tiberian vocalization, which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics (
nequdot) and the so-called accents (two related systems of
cantillation signs or te'amim). These together with the marginal notes masora magna and masora parva make up the Tiberian apparatus.