"Transmission". The Masoretic text is the traditionally correct text of the Hebrew Bible established by the group of scholars known as the Masoretes. Their activity extended from c500-930 C.E. During this period they: examined many biblical manuscripts and decided which of the texts were the most accurate; created a system of vowel annotations or pointing and applied it to the text, which previously used only consonants; and standardized the system of trope symbols and applied it to the text to indicate word and phrase stresses and cantillation.