The
Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the
Tanach approved for general use in
Judaism. It is also widely used in translations of the
Old Testament of the
Bible. It was primarily compiled, edited and distributed by a group of Jews known as the
Masoretes[?] between the first and tenth centuries C.E. It has numerous differences when compared to the
Septuagint, of both little and great significance. The oldest manuscripts of the Masoretic Text still available to scholars date from approximately the ninth century.