Yosef Ofer

Yosef Ofer (10:30–11:00): The Terms Masora Gedola, Miqra Gedola and the Initials BM”G in Norzi’s Min˙at Shay . Coffee break (11:00–11:30)

Notably, Dr. Yosef Ofer's introduction to the Masorah clarifies from where the codex's authority stems and why its text can be regarded as nearly error free.

http://www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/munro/assets/Mitteilungen.pdf. ↑ Bar-Yosef, Ofer (1998). "The Natufian Culture in the Levant, Threshold to the Origins of Agriculture" (PDF).

Kislev, Mordechai E.; Hartmann, Anat & Bar-Yosef, Ofer (2006a): Early Domesticated Fig in the Jordan Valley. Science 312 (5778): 1372. doi: 10.1126/science.1125910 (HTML abstract) ...

Rami Ben-Yosef; Ofer Merimsky; Yair Herishanu; Zohar Keidar; Ilan-Gil Ron; Richard Essner; Rachel Bar-Shalom; Dan Grisaru; Haim Paran; Aviv Weinstein; Einat Even Sapir