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.