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Part of 1 History of Research - 1.13 Polemics Most of the biblical knowledge of the common Jewish population in the Rabbinic period was not so much based on a stable written text, but on the contents of the biblical books transmitted by oral instruction. In Rabbinic works, as we have them now in manuscripts or printed editions, the biblical text is nearly uniformly the later Masoretic text (I.1.2.2; I.1.5), although we do not know how much this text was unified by later copyists and, above all, what text-forms non-Rabbinic Jews in Palestine used. This concerns also Christians and Samaritans. A…