JACOB Ben Naphtali, a famous rabbi of the 5th
century: he was one of the principal massorets, and
bred at the school of Tiberias in Palestine with Ben
Asar, another principal massoret. The invention of
points in Hebrew to serve for vowels, and of accents
to facilitate the reading of the language, are ascribed
to these two rabbies; and said to be done in an assembly
of the Jews held at Tiberias, A. D. 476.