>As may be expected from our knowledge of the development of the
Hebrew text, the En-Gedi Hebrew text is not vocalized, there are no
indications of verses, and the script resembles other documents from
the late Dead Sea Scrolls. The text deciphered thus far is completely
identical with the consonantal framework of the medieval text of the
Hebrew Bible, traditionally named the Masoretic Text, and which is
the text presented in most printed editions of the Hebrew Bible. On
the other hand, one to two centuries earlier, the so-called proto-Masoretic