“Mount
Gerizim,
All
the Days of Our Lives”
May/June 2019
Vol. XVIII - No 5
In This Issue ·
Congratulations ·
7
Shehadeh articles ·
Orhof
photos ·
Tsedaka
Tour ·
Links ·
From
the Editor ·
Fisher
Libraries ·
Hill
Museum (5 MSS) ·
Aleppo
Community? ·
Pentateuch
in Wyoming ·
BL
Digitized MS ·
Books ·
Bibliography ·
Biblio
2019, the Samaritan Community number 820.
Future Events
It has been 3657 years
since the entrance into the Holy Land which happened on the Sixth Month of the Hebrew
Year.
(Samaritan’s typical calendar)
2019
Festival of Weeks June 3- June 9, 2019
Festival of the first day of the Seventh Month
-Sept. 29, 2019
Day of Atonement – Oct. 8, 2019
Festival of Sukkot – Oct. 13, 2019
Festival of the 8th Day – Oct 20, 2019
Congratulations!!!!
New
Baby Girl, Basma was born in Mount Gerizim - Daughter of Salwa and Yehsaahq b.
Ibtisam and the late Priest Maasleeh b. High Priest Phinhas. Thursday, 9.5.2019
(photo right)
Ortal& Abraahm B. Yaashishaakaar Maarheeb
Tuesday Evening 18.6.2019
A new Couple in Qiriat Luza, Mount Gerizim, Samaria Nethanela
and Ziv B. Samar and Shamir Altif
Tuesday
evening 25.6.2019 (Image right)
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/123_years_since.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/Mosess_Praise_.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/thehighpriestamram.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/soft_voices.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/thegreatpower.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/thebookofmourning.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/alwaysthereissomebody.pdf
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Ori Orhof Photos of
the Pilgrimage posted 6 9 2019
See
all the photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/oriorhof/albums?fbclid=IwAR01sa_iaULmpgWQPZOjAsm0T6A9HAkwffvbuDhhghBcdzTrXLwFWrE_zbE
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Source:
Xinhua| 2019-06-16
Taim
kahen, an eight-day Samaritan baby, lies on a bed during a traditional
circumcision ceremony at the Mount Gerizim, above the West Bank city of Nablus,
June 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Ayman Nobani)
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-06/16/c_138148255.htm
Benyamim
Tsedaka schedule for the Summer, 2019:
June,
10 - Milano, Bibliothka Ambrosiana
June
16 - Rome, Vatican Barberini Library
June
23 - Sicily, Seminarians on the Israelite Samaritans
June
30 - Paris, Bibliotheca National + Awarding the Samaritan Medal for
Humanitarian Achievements to Rabbi Gabriel Hagai
July
6 - London, British Library
Benyamim
Tsedaka
will be happy to meet seekers of the Israelite Samaritans and Samaritan Studies
in each place. You can contact him at sedakab@yahoo.com
The Samaritan Pentateuch is in the book, Milano: Storia Del Popolo E Pel Popolo (1871)
(Italian) by Cesare Cantu. According to the book, a Samaritan Pentateuch from
Shechem came from the rich library of the collector of books and manuscript, Gian
Vincenzo Pinello (1535-1601). ‘His collection of manuscripts, when
it was purchased from his estate in 1608 for the Biblioteca
Ambrosiana, filled 70 cases. ‘
It
appears that Joseph
Scaliger was
friends with Pinello! This would explain the source of the manuscript.
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580 – 1637) was a student in his house at the moment of Pinello’s
death and spent some of the following weeks studying in his library, taking
notes from it’s catalogues and keeping up his correspondence. Peiresc was 21 at
that time.
See a good article: https://www.academia.edu/3868798/Gian_Vincenzo_Pinellis_collection_of_catalogues_of_private_libraries_in_sixteenth-century_Europe
On
June 12, 2019, Benny posted on his Facebook page a couple images of a 15th
century Samaritan fragment with Duet 24: 16-25:8, while researching in Milan. Page Size: 31:23 cm; size of the text:
15:24 cm. Images below by Benny. Great find Benny!!!!
Also
see
Noja,
Sergio <1931-2008>
Un
foglio del Pentateuco samaritano con traduzione in arabo nei manoscritti
dell'Ambrosiana / Sergio Noja Noseda
Dettagli
Descrizione
fisica: P. 49-66
Lingua:
Italiano (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Fa
parte di: Il mio cuore è a oriente : studi di linguistica storica, filologia e
cultura ebraica dedicati a Maria Luisa Mayer Modena / a cura di Francesco
Aspesi, Vermondo Brugnatelli, Anna Linda Callow, Claudia Rosenzweig
http://ambrosiana.comperio.it/opac/detail/view/ambro:catalog:798401
Library
Pinacoteca Accademia Ambrosiana
Manoscritti
S.P.II.248
Dettagli
Descrizione fisica: ff. 231 ; perg. ; 102x78 mm
Data: 1000-1050
Lingua: Samaritano (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Comprende: 2 titoli Nascondi elenco Mostra in
ricerca
Ehrle, Franz <1845-1934>. Lettera
autografa del card. Franz Ehrle a mons. Achille Ratti ; 25
Nota:
Su
c. 231v : "Biblia Samaritana quinque libri Moisis a fratre Thoma
Hovaridri ord. min. reg. obsv. in Civitate Sichem inventa"
Restaurato
a Modena nel Laboratorio del sig. Gius. Ferrari a spese della Soprintendenza
bibliografica di Milano (10/2/1955)
Codices
hebraici bybliothecae ambrosianae descripti a Carolo Bernheimer, Florentiae
apud Leonem Olschki Bibliopolam, 1933 pp. 179-180
Dati generali (100)
Tipo
di data: data incerta
Data
di pubblicazione: 1000-1050
Manoscritti (149)
Supporto del libro: pergamena
Materiale
della legatura: pelle, cuoio
Stato
di conservazione della legatura: restaurato
http://ambrosiana.comperio.it/opac/detail/view/ambro:catalog:116620
Manuscripts
SPII.248
Details
Physical description: ff. 231; for
G. ; 102x78 mm
Date: 1000-1050
Language: Samaritan (text language, soundtrack, etc. )
Ehrle, Franz
<1845-1934>. Autograph letter of card. Franz Ehrle to
Msgr. Achille Ratti ; 25
Note: On c. 231v: & quot; Biblia Samaritana quinque books
Moisis a friar Thoma Hovaridri ord. min. reg. obsv. in
Civitate Sichem invents & quot;
Restored
in Modena in the Laboratory of Mr. Gius. Ferrari at the expense of
the Bibliographic Superintendency of Milan (10/2/1955)
General data (100)
Type
of date: uncertain
date
Date
of publication: 1000-1050
Manuscripts (149)
Support
of the book: parchment
Ligature
material: leather,
leather
State
of preservation of the binding: restored
(Image
right of SPII.248 by Benyamim Tsedaka)
Also,
it would be interesting to see if the manuscript, if it is a manuscript or a
printed book, is mentioned in the book Codices
hebraici Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (Pl. X.
Florentiae, 1933) by Carlo Bernheimer.
Yet in the book on page 5, the description is ‘A Samaritan
Pentateuch in Octavo.’ I cannot personally say I have ever heard of a written
Pentateuch being in Octavo. It sounds like a
European reproduction.
When
Benyamim Tsedaka was in Milan at the Ambrosiana library last year looking for Samaritan manuscripts
and with the librarians were unable to locate any. Benny visited the Library once
again, June 10-15, 2019 to have a deeper search for Samaritan manuscripts. The
above photo was taken by Benny in 2018.
~~~~~
Benyamim
Tsedaka posted on his Facebook page on May 29th, 2019, that Lior Jacoby of Bar-Ilan University in
Israel has visited the University of
Johannes Gutenberg in Germany. Dr.
Helmut Hinkle, director and Jacoby were looking in the manuscript
collection and located a Samaritan scroll of Genesis. It appears that it was
purchased by Prof. Nicholas Adler
(1870-1972) while visiting Israel in the 1960s.
Accordingly
the scroll and eight Samaritan Torah books from the 13th to 20th
centuries will be donated to the National Library in Jerusalem.
Let
us hope they will be digitized and placed online.
~~~~~~
Benny’s
Journey in Europe in Five Cities – Summer, 2019
The
Ninth day,
Rome, Italy
Tuesday,
18.6.2019
To
my surprise, I found that instead of the four manuscripts that I had expected
to find in the Vatican library purchased by the distinguished traveler Pietri
de Valli in 1616 in Damascus, the list prepared by Dr. Proverbio revealed to me
that there were 15 manuscripts in the library more than the Italian traveler
had acquired. A reason for excitement and celebration in the heart.
According
to the rules of the library, it is not possible to order more than five
manuscripts a day. I immediately gave in to the rules. I saw this as a
compliment, when Dr. Proverbio asked me to cooperate in preparing a detailed
catalog of the 15 manuscripts, because no one had prepared it so far. It is
clear to me that the 11 additional manuscripts came to the library in 1815, 200
years after they were purchased in Damascus, the four correspondents by de la
Valle.
Four
of the five manuscripts I examined today were ancient, three bought by Pietro
de la Vella - a Hebrew Torah scroll, a Torah scroll in Aramaic translation and
a collection of the Dafter prayers, all from the 13th and 14th centuries; A
letter sent by the Samaritans to France, at the end of the 18th century, to
those they believed to be Samaritans, and a collection of three notebooks,
containing first Hebrew passages from the beginning of Genesis and a number of
names and an opening passage of an Aramaic translation dotted with the Book of
Genesis.
I
will see what the remaining manuscripts are, the two additional days of
inspection, Tuesdays and Wednesdays a week. Unfortunately, there is no way to
photograph in the library. I ordered one sample photo - 8 Euro per page, from
each of the manuscripts I checked.
Journey
in Europe in Five Cities – Summer, 2019
The
tenth day,
Rome, Italy Wednesday, 19.6.2019
The
disappointing part of the collection in the Vatican
Now
that I have been equipped with a visitor ID card, I do not need a special
permit to enter the Vatican compound. Today I went straight to the library.
I
came full of observations to check the second trimester of the collection's 15
volumes, and the size of the expectations was the size of the disappointments,
except for one handwritten manuscript, number 8, which was purchased in its
entirety. [1828-1928], on matters of halakhah, which constitutes about 100
instructions / proofs of the truth of the Samaritan Israeli heritage. The book
covers 860 pages, because Abraham Tzadka the Tsarfi brings it in two columns, a
column in Hebrew and a column in Arabic in Hebrew letters.
In
the essay, Avraham argues with the Samaritan commentators known as Pinchas ben
Isaac HaCohen of his time [1840-1898] and commentators and ancient halachic
scholars, and he disagreed with the sages of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
without mentioning their names.
Sir
Avi Ratzon Ben-Binyamim Tzedakah [1922-1990] assembled most of Avraham's works,
thereby redeeming the great portion of his works containing hundreds of poems.
My father also made sure to include the poems of Abraham, who was the subject
of his admiration, in the prayer books he published, which are now the source
books of the Samaritan copywriters after his time.
It
is interesting to note that the entire composition is now in the Vatican
library, and anyone who wants to study it and publish it knows where to go.
What
is disappointing is that manuscripts 7-6 and 9-10 are bundles of loose leaves
that the Vatican library bought two years ago from the Dutch antiquities dealer
in Uman, who bought it from a Jerusalem antiques seller who bought it from the
estate of Avraham ben Nur Tzedaka. The estate is usually divided into single
pages between a number of Jerusalemite sellers, including manuscripts of two
and three languages. They sold it to European antique sellers. Thus the estate
was part of the Vatican Library, Writings 6 through 10.
My
pain grew to see manuscript number 9, which is nothing but the original
manuscript written by my master, my father - a copy of "Marka Marka"
in Aramaic and in translation into Arabic, as a collection of loose pages in
disarray. Fortunately, the manuscript was duplicated in hundreds of units and
is found in every Samaritan private library. Apparently this manuscript was
borrowed by the owner of the estate from my father and did not return to him.
I
spoke with the director of the collection of manuscripts at the Vatican
library, Professor Probeiro, that I would catalog the collection of Samaritan
manuscripts and arrange the pages of the coupons I found in writings 7-6, 9 and
10.
In
the afternoon my new friends, the Samaritan Israelis of Rome, Enzo and Maor,
arrived one by one. We spent a little time together, and they returned to their
places. Later in the week we will meet again.
Journey
in Europe in Five Cities – Summer, 2019
The
eleventh day, Rome, Italy Thursday, 20.6.2019
Last
day at the Vatican Library
The
last day of the three days at the Vatican Library met my expectations like the
first day. Four complete manuscripts, but not bound, purchased before 1924,
probably by the priest Amram Ben Yitzhak [1889-1980, later to become a high
priest in 1961-1980]. Two of them in his beautiful handwriting in Arabic, a
pleasant surprise for me, that I have seen so far his clear handwriting in
ancient Hebrew.
One
of them is the Book of Questions and Answers in the Torah, and the other is the
18th-century sage Tevya ben-Av, whose metrical identity, is called Leviticus.
Hacohen Amram writes in an orderly manner in pleasant Arabic writing, clear and
fluent.
The
other two manuscripts are the "Book of Days" of the father of Fatah,
with a continuous introduction and description from the days of Joshua Bin Nun
until the eighth century CE, with the completion of the names of the great
priests from then on to Ya'akov ben Aharon (1816-1916). ]. The second book is
the chronicle of the book "Joshua Ben Nun" in Arabic, which was held
in Egypt in the 13th century. The first forty chapters on Joshua and the next
ten chapters extend until the third century CE. The copy of the two manuscripts
is probably the priest Avishah ben Pinchas [1882-1961, later a high priest in the
years 1961-1943], as his handwriting is familiar to me from his library.
Torah
scroll from Damascus
The
fifth manuscript is the fourth in the ancient manuscripts, which was previously
in the Barbarini collection in the Vatican and was transferred to the Central
Library. The fourth manuscript purchased by the high-ranking Italian traveler
Pietro de la Vella in Damascus in 1616.
The
manuscript is written on leather, from the 13th century, a three-language Torah
scroll, Hebrew-Arabic-Aramaic in this order. But with many completeness in the
paper made by the library man. 72 of the 264 pages are complete in Hebrew and
26 in Arabic.
With
a manuscript missing so many pages, after I discovered what I discovered, it is
too late to ask what drove my late relatives. The sage Yisrael ben Gamliel was
right to use this manuscript for an edition he duplicated in 1967? Israel
completed the missing pages of a manuscript of the British Library No. 7562,
but much of what was completed was copied in the 19th century, in the handwriting
of the high priest Amram Ben Shlomo [1874-1809, his years of 1874-1855], 600 years
after the time of writing the Vatican library hand, placed before my eyes in
its large and impressive pages [35 x 25 cm].
A
great riddle is who leaves the many missing pages in the Vatican manuscript,
between 1616 and the beginning of the 19th century? It is clear that the
missing pages are not in the library of St. Petersburg in Russia.
In
any case, it is now clear to me that there was no justification to reproduce a
complete edition of a Torah scroll consisting of at least three books of the
Torah.
Journey
in Europe in Five Cities – Summer, 2019
11-12
The eleventh and twelfth days, Rome, Italy Friday-Saturday, 21-22.6.2019
The
weekend will mark the success of finally reaching the collection of Samaritan
manuscripts in the Vatican Library. I succeeded in sharing the library's staff
and researchers with the beloved Miriam Hamdan of Milan and with you dear
readers.
Although
there was a certain disappointment in part of the collection, I was compensated
with a vision, review and catalog of the four Samaritan manuscripts, the first
to arrive in Europe in 1616.
They
were preceded by a letter at the end of the 16th century, sent by the
Samaritans in Egypt to the interrogator Josef Scaliger, in which they informed
him of their refusal to give him manuscripts. Pietro de la Vella, the Italian
traveler in 1616, refused to sell him Samaritan manuscripts in Cairo, Gaza, and
Nablus until he came to Damascus and managed to purchase the four manuscripts
from the Samaritan community in Damascus, nine years before a pogrom destroyed
the community there, with the exception of one family, To Nablus and is the
basis for the family of the dahns in Nablus, and today in Holon and in the Druze.
The
two manuscripts of the four were the basis for the first publication of the
Hebrew text and the Samaritan translation of Aramaic into the Torah. Both were
also incorporated into polyglotte-a multi-lingual doctrine-of Paris and London
in the same century, the seventeenth century. The publication aroused a storm
among researchers in Europe to the point that they were split into two camps,
which held that the Torah version in the hands of the Samaritans was a replica
of the traditional Jewish text, in contrast to those who claimed that the
original text of the Torah had finally been discovered.
The
discoveries of Qumran in the middle of the twentieth century and a comparative
study of the relationship between the two versions of the Septuagint - the translation
of the Torah into Greek - made the two texts equal in research, although the
debate is closer to the earliest version.
Since
the transfer of the first manuscripts, European researchers have managed to
deceive 40 Torah scrolls and other writings by the end of the eighteenth
century. But since the middle of the 19th century, the dam has been breached,
especially in the large sale of the Geniza in the synagogue in Nablus, with
1348 manuscripts, to the karate scholar, collector Avraham Pirkovitz. On the
trips to Europe by Samaritans from Nablus, another 2,500 manuscripts were sold,
a result of the impoverishment and impoverishment of the community in Nablus
until the middle of the twentieth century.
With
the improvement of the economic situation of the community in the second half
of the twentieth century, the sale of manuscripts by the Samaritans ceased.
Today, the Samaritans' private libraries in The Hague and Holon have about
1,000 manuscripts.
The
Samaritan manuscripts are well preserved in the libraries of the world, and
most importantly, accessible to every spring. In the last decade, digitization
of manuscripts began. Pioneers include the Michigan State University Library,
the British Library in London and the National Library of Paris.
The
community committees in Holon and the Druze should be able to come out and
preserve the manuscripts in the private libraries of the Samaritans, or at
least allow them to photograph them digitally and transfer them to the Internet
in order to be accessible to all. A great deal of effort is being made by the
National Library in Jerusalem.
Continues
meetings with my new friends in Rome.
Benyimim
~~~~~~~~~
Links
Delos Open
Museum Restoration Project
The Ministry of Culture and Sports has presented
a comprehensive plan for the protection and enhancement of the archaeological
site of Delos that is being applied on multiple levels simultaneously.
Read more at https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/delos-open-museum-restoration-project.html#tApKtmwpurIoyDFZ.99
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By John Johnson, Printer. Published
by Messrs, Long, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown &Green, Paternoster Row, London.
1824, p.
307 link
The
Washington Times (Washington, District of Columbia)
09
Dec. 1906, Sun. Page 10
American
Seeking Samaritan Scroll
J.
Pierpont Morgan Reported to Be Bidding on Scriptures
London:
Dec. 8.- An American millionaire, supposed to be Pierpont Morgan, is trying to
buy the copy of the Samaritan Scriptures which a deputation of the Samaritans-
of whom there are only 500 left- brought to London some time ago. The price
placed upon the scroll, which dates at about 1200 A.D., and of which there are
only two copies in the world, is £5,000.
The
British Museum offered one-fifth of that sum and now, Hector Donovan, in the
interests of “an American” has raised the bidding to £10,000. The
Museum authorities are certain to compete, and it is more than likely that
America will be the destination of the ancient scroll, at a price far above
that placed upon it by the venerable high priest.
The
scroll is kept in a marvelous triple case of brass with silver inscriptions
hammered into it. There are also silver gilt ornaments and rich embroideries
which will be included in the sale. If the scroll does go to America there will
be the usual outery- when it is too late.
~~~~~~~~
From the
Editor
An interesting book I have not seen:
Bibles
& Biblical Literature, Including the Best Works, Ancient & Modern, on
the Criticism, Interpretation, and Illustration of Holy Scripture, Being a very
complete and extensive Collection of bibles in all Languages, Biblical
Commentators and Critics of all ages, sects, and languages, Jewish and
Rabbinical Authors, the most important works in every department of Sacred
Philology, History, and Antiquities, and other subjects by which the Bible is
illustrated, with a Collection of
Samaritan Manuscripts Including Three very ancient Pentateuchs, To Which
are appended A minutely Classified Index of Authors, and Alphabetical Index of
Subjects. by Charles John Stewart. 1872
London: C. J. Stewart, 8vo (190 x 125 mm), [6], 406 + 12pp., of
adverts, unobtrusive library stamp to title page, orig. cloth, lacks spine
title label, head of spine frayed. A substantial catalogue of 406 pages listing
some 5685 antiquarian books.
The
scroll case in the article above appears to be the case at the Jewish Museum
today. See https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/22404-torah-case-samaritan-torah-case-tik
The
Jewish Museum (JM) say, ‘This case
belongs to the earliest group of Torah cases to have survived; all five were
made for the Samaritan community in the Near East during the sixteenth century.
Three are still in use in the community today, while the fourth is at the
University of Michigan.’
Yet the dating of the scroll according to the JM,
has 1568 c. e., not the 1200 as the article mentions above.
It also appears that it was not J.P. Morgan that
was reported to want to purchase the case, but Hadji Ephraim Benguiat (c.
1856-1932) and son, Mordecai Benguiat (1875- ?) both antiquities dealers.
The Fisher
Libraries Samaritan scrolls
I
had known very little of the Samaritan scrolls held at the Fisher Library in
Sydney, Australia and the Fisher Library at University of Toronto. There is a
brief confusion with the Sydney Fisher Library and the University of Toronto
Fisher Library. The following sources should fill in the blanks:
Fisher
Library at the University of Sydney, Australia
Rare Books
& Special Collection in the (Thomas) Fisher Library, The University of
Sydney, Australia
File
no. Add.
Ms. 390 (Restricted) Barcode: 000000061893729
Acquisition
Information: 1970s from an unknown private collection.
Dimensions: 30
sheet continuous Roll: Height 43.5 cm. Length 17.68 m.
Text
body: typical 33x 16 cm four columns of
17 cm width, Upper margin space 5 cm and lower 5.5 cm.
Subject: A
Samaritan Torah scroll on paper.
Languages
and scripts: Samaritan Hebrew.
Date: 1929-1930
Scribe: Jacob
b. Ozzi (Azzi) b. Jacob b. Aaron( -1987).
Provenance: Nablus.
Colophons
Fols.: unknown.
Codicology
and codicography: two different inks on modern paper. Dry ruling lines on four
columns. Typical four columns, two sheets three columns, three sheets have two
columns and one sheet has a single column.
Catalogues
and publication history:
Crown, Alan: Hebrew
manuscripts and Rare printed Books Held in the Fisher Library of the University
of Sydney. Studies in Australian Bibliography No. 20, General
Editor- Walter W. Stone. Sydney” The Wentworth Press, 1973
The
University of Toronto Fisher Library
The
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, The University of Toronto, Canada
File
no. MSS 08005 (formerly MSS 09251)
Acquisition
Information: March 24, 1915; purchased in Nablus in June 1912 from the
sons of the Priest, formally owned by James Frederic McCurdy
(1847-1935), Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Toronto, Hugh
Hornby Langton (1862-1953), Librarian at the University of Toronto.
Dimensions: Height
43.5 cm. Length 17.68 m.
Text
body: 33x16 cm. in four columns
Subject: A
Samaritan Torah scroll on paper.
Languages
and scripts: Samaritan Hebrew.
Date: 1911
Scribe: Tabiah
(=Ghazâl) ben Pinhas ( -1843), other
scribe unknown (written in two hands).
Provenance: Nablus.
Colophons
Fols.: unknown.
Codicology
and codicography: Ink on modern paper. Dry ruling lines on single column.
Catalogues
and publication history: Walfish, Barry
Dov “As
it is Written”: Judaic Treasures from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Exhibition and catalogue. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library,
University of Toronto 26 January to 1 May 2015
Reinhard Pummer, "Samaritan Manuscripts in
Toronto" in Revue de l'Université d'Ottawa, vol. 46, no. 3 (July-September
1976), p. 345-363.
https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?6970310&uuid=92a23970-d07f-44df-af38-03b4be35eeac
~~~~~~~~~~
Hill Museum &
Manuscript Library http://hmml.org/
Published on May 23, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEK8_fk7NQ0
Dr. David
Calabro,
curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts, talks about the Samaritan
Leaflet
The
writing appears to read: ‘This fragment of ancient Samaritan was obtained March
16, 1864 at Nablous (Shechem) from the chief of the Samaritans at some expense
of arrack and other considerations. From the book of the law- said to be of the
times of the Kings?’
Jacob Shelaby
was called the chief of the Samaritans by the London Newspapers and the date
fits his timeline of selling manuscripts such as the Ms Fragment 37. It appears
to be a true fragment!
In 1864, Samaritan priests quietly sold to the Russian
collector Abraham
(Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich (1786–1874) 1,348
manuscripts.(The Editor)
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML), located at
Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, holds the world’s largest
archive of manuscript photographs in both microfilm and digital format. HMML
identifies manuscript collections around the world that need photographic
preservation. HMML’s archives now contain more than 200,000 complete
manuscripts, ranging in size from large codices of hundreds of folios to brief
documents consisting of just a few leaves.
Search:
https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/
You will find
below 5 manuscripts that are online at the Hill
Museum & Manuscript Library
1
from Nablus
3
from Lebanon
2
from the Armenian in Aleppo. One of these has been recorded, yet the other one
is a new discovery. Both mss have Samaritan liturgies placed in the Armenian
books as fly-leaves both in the front and rear of the books. See below!!!
~~~~
Frag. 37: Manuscript Fragment contains Deuteronomy 4:49-5:18
(Shown above)
SJU Ms. Frag. 37
Place of Origin: Nablus
Century(ies) 19th
century (?)
Year Range: 1800-1864
Support: Parchment
Support Dimensions 28.5 x 23.5 cm
Page Layout 1
column, 28 lines per page
Writing System: Hebrew
Script(s): Samaritan
Country:
United States, Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
City: Collegeville (Minn.) Library of Congress
Authorities VIAF
Repository: Saint John's University. Rare Books and
Special Collections
Extent 1 leaf(ves)
See
MS: https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/500879
Lebanon: MS
AC 2 Samaritan Pentateuch
Shelfmark:
MS AC 2
Current
Status In situ
Century(ies) 19th century (?)
Language(s) Arabic
Bibliography:
James Pollock, Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Library of the Near Eastern
School of Theology (1981).
HMML
Proj. Num. NEST AC 00002
Permanent
Link: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/505671
Acknowledgments Cataloged by Salam Rassi
Extent 208 leaf(ves)
Provenance
Commisioned
copy made by one of the Syrian Mission's employees, according to Pollock in his
1981 catalog; among Eli Smith's reference works for the Bible translation
project
Type Manuscript
Part
Location fol. 1r-207v
Support Paper
Writing
Space 21.3 x 16 cm
Script(s) Naskh
Item
Location fol. 3v-206r
Title Samaritan Pentateuch
Title
NS التوراة
Uniform
Title Bible. Pentateuch Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Associated
Name Smith, Eli, 1801-1857
(Commissioner) Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Lebanon: MS
AC 3 Samaritan Pentateuch
Item
Location 1v-215v
Title Samaritan Pentateuch
Extent 216 leaf(ves)
Provenance:
Copied by Samaritan scribe named صداقة
بن ابراهبم بن
الحكم ابو
الفتح العبري الاسرائيلي
اليوسفي
القباسي in Ba'albak, rear flyleaf;
among Eli Smith's reference works for his Bible translation project; copied
from an exemplar in the Samaritan script, rear flyleaf; third book of the
Pentateuch was copied from an exemplar dating to 4 Rabī‘
al-Thānī 833 AH (31 December 1429 CE), rear flyleaf
Support
Dimensions 20.8 x 15.2 cm
Page
Layout One column, 18 lines per page
Script(s) Naskh
Scribe Ṣadāqah ibn Ibrāhīm ibn
al-Ḥakam Abū al-Fatḥ al-‘Ibrī al-Isrā’īlī
al-Yūsufī al-Qabbāsī
Country: Lebanon Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
City: Beirut
Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Repository: Near East School of Theology Library of Congress
Shelfmark: MS AC 3
Century(ies): 19th century (?)
Language(s): Arabic
Bibliography:
James Pollock, Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Library of the Near Eastern
School of Theology (1981).
HMML
Proj. Num. NEST AC 00003
Permanent
Link https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/505672
Acknowledgments Cataloged by Salam Rassi
Lebanon: MS
AC 4 Commentary on the Samaritan Pentateuch
Century(ies) 19th century
Language(s) Arabic
Bibliography:
James Pollock, Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Library of the Near Eastern
School of Theology (1981).
HMML
Proj. Num. NEST AC 00004
Permanent
Link https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/505673
Acknowledgments Cataloged by Salam Rassi
Surrogate
Format Digital
Capture
Date 2010/02/23
Access
Restrictions Registered or order a
digital copy
Type
of Record Manuscript
Provenance:
Copy made for Eli Smith by one Samaritan priest from Nablus
عبده عمران بن
سلامة بن غزة
بن اسحاق ابن
ابراهيم, rear flyleaf; probably among
Eli Smith's reference works for his Bible translation project, according to
Pollock in his 1981 catalog
Part
Location fol. 1v-175v
Century(ies) 19th century
Date
Precise 1853 September 05
Native
Date Precise 31 Dhū al-Qa‘dah 1269
AH
Support Paper
Page
Layout 1 column, 18 lines per page
Writing
Space 20.7 x 14.8 cm
Writing
System Arabic
Script(s) Naskh
Scribe ‘Abduh ‘Umrān ibn Salāmah ibn
Ghazzah ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm
Scribe
NS عبده
عمران بن
سلامة بن غزة
بن اسحاق ابن
ابراهيم
Colophon
on rear flyleaf
Item
Location fol. 1v-175v
Title Commentary on the Pentateuch
Title
NS شرح
المعاجيز
Alternate
Title Sharḥ al-ma‘ājīz
Alternate
Title Memar Marqah
Associated
Name Smith, Eli, 1801-1857 Library
of Congress Authorities VIAF
Language(s) Arabic
Item
Notes: Translated from the Samaritan for Eli Smith; attributed to the fourth
century Samaritan author Marqah ben Amram ben Sered, active 4th century
MS 30: Armenian
book’s Front and back flyleaves from old Samaritan manuscript
Country Syria
Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
City Aleppo
Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Repository Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo
Shelfmark MS 30
Current
Status Unknown
Century(ies) 15th-16th century
Year
Range 1400-1600
Support Paper
Language(s) Armenian
Genre(s) Gospel books
Bibliography Artavazd Surméyan, Catalogue des manuscrits
arméniens se trouvant à Alep à l'église des Quarante Martyrs, ainsi qu'auprès
des particuliers (1935).
HMML
Proj. Num. AODA 00030
Permanent
Link https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/130510
Acknowledgments Cataloged by Edward Mathews Jr.
Surrogate
Format Digital
Capture
Date 2010/12/11
Type
of Record Manuscript
Extent 539 page(s)
Collation viii + 539 + ix
Binding Leather binding. Front and back flyleaves from old Samaritan manuscript
Binding
Dimensions 17 x 13.5 x 5 cm
Provenance Formerly ms. 101
Writing
System Armenian
Script(s) Bolorgir
Scribe Barsegh
Notes Colophon found on pages 534-539.
Item
Location pages 1-533
Title
NS Աւետերան
Uniform
Title Bible. Gospels Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Item
Notes Gospel text ends with appended
pericope of woman caught in adultery
Bibliography: Artavazd Surméyan, Catalogue des manuscrits
arméniens se trouvant à Alep à l'église des Quarante Martyrs, ainsi qu'auprès
des particuliers (1935).
MS 56:
Armenian book’s Front and back flyleaves from old Samaritan manuscript
Country:
Syria Library of Congress Authorities
VIAF
City Aleppo
Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Repository Armenian Church. Diocese of Aleppo
Shelfmark MS 56
Current
Status Unknown
Century(ies) 17th century
Language(s) Armenian
Genre(s) Bibles
Bibliography Artavazd Surméyan, Catalogue des manuscrits
arméniens se trouvant à Alep à l'église des Quarante Martyrs, ainsi qu'auprès
des particuliers (1935).
HMML
Proj. Num. AODA 00056
Permanent
Link https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/130959
Acknowledgments Cataloged by Edward Mathews Jr.
Surrogate
Format Digital
Capture
Date 2011/02/10
Access
Restrictions Registered or order a
digital copy
Type
of Record Manuscript
Extent 336 page(s)
Collation viii + 336 + iv
Binding Leather binding. Front and back flyleaves from Samaritan manuscript
Binding
Dimensions 26.5 x 19.8 x 3.5 cm
Provenance Formerly ms. 109
Place
of Origin Syria, Aleppo
Century(ies) 17th century
Native
Date Precise 1619 AC
Support Paper
Page
Layout 23 lines per page
Signatures Yes
Writing
System Armenian
Script(s) Bolorgir
Scribe Ghazar
Decoration Usual liturgical headers and highlighted
initial letters, etc.
Notes Colophon found on pages 316-318. Dated from
colophon on page 316
Item
Location pages 1-336
Title
NS Սաղմոս
Uniform
Title Bible. Psalms, Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Item
Notes Biblical prayers and canticles
interspersed and at end
Codex des
Kärntner Landesarchiv GV 8/12
Country: Austria Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
City: Klagenfurt
Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Repository Kärntner Landesarchiv Library of Congress Authorities VIAF
Shelfmark Codex des Kärntner Landesarchiv GV 8/12
Century(ies) 14th century
Language(s) Hebrew
Genre(s) Bibles
Ext.
Bibliography H. Menhardt,
Handschriftenverzeichnis der Kärntner Bibliotheken (1927), 184-254.
HMML
Proj. Num. 12876
Permanent
Link https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/13262
Type
of Record Manuscript
Extent 10 leaf(ves)
Place
of Origin : Austria
Century(ies) 14th century
Year
Range 1300-1400
Writing
System Roman
Title Bible. Numbers
Uniform
Title Bible. Numbers Library of Congress
Authorities VIAF
Item
Notes Book of Numbers in Hebrew with Samaritan script: includes Numbers
16:14 to 28:10
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The Samaritan
Community in Aleppo
Nathan
Schur believes the Aleppo Samaritan
community disappeared in the 17th century. Henry Maundrell or Robert Huntington, an
Anglican chaplain of the English Factory at Aleppo lived in Aleppo 10 years
only to visit the Samaritans at Nablus in 1671. He mentions no Samaritan
community at the time in Aleppo. Yet,
Pietro della Valle found Samaritans in Aleppo. Pietro
Della Valle, a famous book collector. "In a letter written in Damascus and
Aleppo, dated June 15, 1616, della Valle described his delight at finding some
rare Samaritan manuscripts, some of them with glosses in Arabic, for sale.
Thomas Davis was an English merchant for
the Levant Company stationed in Aleppo in 1624. After receiving a request from
Bishop Usher secured a Samaritan Pentateuch from one of Davis’ caravans had
crossed paths while traveling from Nablus to
Gaza with the last Samaritan High Priest Shalmaiah
ben Pinhas ben Eleazar, the last High Priest of
the family of Pinhas.
Even since 1624 there has been no mention of any Samaritans
in Aleppo. Yet, the Armenian Church manuscript/s of 1619 denotes their access to
Samaritan manuscripts.
It
should also be of interest that the Armenian archdiocese in Aleppo was
established in 1710. Therefore the books were written before the establishment
of that church. Where the books originated is a good question that may never be
answered. But most likely they came from Damascus.
Moses
Gaster said, ‘The only reference to the Samaritans in Aleppo which I can trace
is in an Arabic translation of the Pentateuch of 1328.’(The Samaritans, page 153)
In
1537 while in Jerusalem, the Jesuit priest (ordained in 1544) Guillaume Postel (1510-1581)
has been said to be the first Westerner to acquire Samaritan manuscripts. Records
indicate that Postel was the first to recognize Samaritan script on coins as
has been recorded in his Linguanim duodecim characteribus (Paris, 1538). Fraser indicates that Postel had
one Samaritan manuscript, now located at the University of Leiden MS Acad. 218.
Did he acquired it in Constantinople or Jerusalem?
J.J.
Scaliger acquired in 1584, two Samaritan manuscripts, with one being the Samaritan
Arabic book of Joshua (MS Leiden Or. 249).
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Reprint
from the Samaritan Update January 16, 2003
A Pentateuch
in Wyoming
by Anne Marie Lane (RETIRED 2018)
In the American
Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, USA there is in the Toppan Rare
Books Library, a Manuscript of the Pentateuch, apparently written in Samaritan
characters.
What a pleasant surprise to
read an email from Shomron. It is the first inquiry I have had (in my 9
years here) about the Samaritan Pentateuch. It is a special favorite that I
bring out for presentations on book history and books of different religions.
It is small, a hand-held version, just over 4 inches high and 3 inches wide,
400 pages long, hand-sewn with red
I do not know the conditions
of the book ending up here in Wyoming, except to say that the manual
cataloging record I have (the book is not cataloged online yet) says
it was acquired in 1967 as a William Fitzhugh gift. Dr. Fitzhugh (of
California) donated both books and money to buy other books, so I'm not
sure if he himself had bought it while traveling somewhere. The cataloging
record also notes that it is from "Nablus, Palestine, circa 1750," so
it is quite old.
Anne Marie Lane (RETIRED 2018)
Faculty Curator of Rare Books
Toppan Library, American Heritage Center
P.O. Box 3924, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/depts/toppan/toppan.htm
~~~~
Pentateuch in Wyoming Catalogue Information
Country:
United States
City:
Laramie, WY
Repository: Toppan Library, University
of Wyoming,
Press-mark.
File no.
Dimensions:
just over 4 inches high and 3 inches wide
Subject: Samaritan Pentateuch
Acquisition information: Acquired in 1967 as a gift from Dr. William
Fitzhugh (of California).
Catalogues and Publication history: The Samaritan Update January 16,
2003
Languages
and scripts: Samaritan Hebrew
Scribe:
unknown
Date:
circa 1750 (unverified)
Provenance: Nablus.
Colophons:
Codicology and codicography: 400 pages long, hand-sewn
with red thread, and has the traditional "flap" binding. The parchment
is a light to medium brown and has an incised cross (like this: X ) on
both the front and back, each within a panel of incised lines. The spine has 21
horizontal lines inscribed from top to bottom. The paper is very thin and
is a cream color. The ink is extremely black, and the whole book is
handwritten in a remarkably tiny script.
Summary of one sample folio:
Acknowledgments: Catalogued by Anne Marie Lane.
Additional
digitized MSS @ the British Library
Published
#HebrewProject Phase 2: Or 5037, a Samaritan liturgy for Passover from
1705/1706. Digitised and available online here:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5037
~~~~~~~~~~~
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New
Publications:
Series: Contributions to Biblical Exegesis &
Theology, 94
Editor: Langlois
M.
Year:
2019
ISBN:
978-90-429-3783-3
Pages:
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Price:
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Summary:
Seventy years after their discovery, the Dead Sea Scrolls continue to shed
light on the Samaritan Pentateuch. The textual features, orthography, script,
variant readings and even theology of the Samaritan Pentateuch have parallels
in various manuscripts found in the Judaean desert and copied during the Second
Temple period. The fertile encounter of Samaritan and Dead Sea Scrolls studies
has yielded this exceptional volume, featuring twelve contributions by some of
the most respected scholars gathered at the University of Strasbourg on May
26–27, 2016. They cover such issues as scribal and editorial practices, political
and religious history, textual editions and versions, palaeography and
linguistics—with provocative studies challenging classical theories on the
origin of the Gerizim tenth commandment or the date of the earliest Dead Sea
Scrolls. http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=10894
Ed.
By Jan Dusek
Series:
Studia Samaritana 11 Studia Judaica 110
Oct. 2018
xiv, 341 pages, 20 Fig. Language:
English
Aims and Scope
The volume contributes to the knowledge of the Samaritan
history, culture and linguistics. Specialists of various fields of research bring
a new look on the topics related to the Samaritans and the Hebrew and Arabic
written sources, to the Samaritan history in the Roman-Byzantine period as well
as to the contemporary issues of the Samaritan community.
by
Stefan Schorch (Editor)
A
critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch is one of the most urgent desiderata
of Hebrew Bible research. The present volume on Leviticus is the first out of a
series of five meant to fill this gap. The text from the oldest manuscripts of
the SP is continuously accompanied by comparative readings, gathered from the
Samaritan Targum and the oral reading, as well as MT, the DSS, and the LXX,
creating an indispensable resource for Biblical research.
Print
Length: 251 pages
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Publication
Date: July 2018
Language:
English, Hebrew
Series:
Studia Samaritana 10 Ed.
by
Kartveit, Magnar / Knoppers, Gary N.
Aims
and Scope: Discoveries on Mount Gerizim and in Qumran demonstrate that the
final editing of the Hebrew Bible coincides with the emergence of the
Samaritans as one of the different types of Judaisms from the last centuries
BCE. This book discusses this new scholarly situation. Scholars working with
the Bible, especially the Pentateuch, and experts on the Samaritans approach
the topic from the vantage point of their respective fields of expertise.
Earlier, scholars who worked with Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies mostly
could TheSamaritanUpdate.com May / June 2018 16 leave the Samaritan material to
experts in that area of research, and scholars studying the Samaritan material
needed only sporadically to engage in Biblical studies. This is no longer the
case: the pre-Samaritan texts from Qumran and the results from the excavations
on Mount Gerizim have created an area of study common to the previously
separated fields of research. Scholars coming from different directions meet in
this new area, and realize that they work on the same questions and with much
common material. This volume presents the current state of scholarship in this
area and the effects these recent discoveries have for an understanding of this
important epoch in the development of the Bible.
Publisher:
De Gruyter. Publication Date: July 2018, 214 pages English
Seeking out the Land: Land of
Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200
BCE – 400 CE), Se’ev Safrai, Brill Academic Publishers,
2018. ISBN 9789004334823
Seeking out the Land describes the study of the Holy Land in the Roman
period and examines the complex connections between theology, social agenda and
the intellectual pursuit. Holiness as a theological concept determines the
intellectual agenda of the elite society of writers seeking to describe the
land, as well as their preoccupation with its physical aspects and their actual
knowledge about it.
Ze'ev Safrai succeeds in examining all the
ancient monotheistic literature, both Jewish and Christian, up to the fourth
century CE, and in demonstrating how all the above-mentioned factors coalesce
into a single entity. We learn that in both religions, with all their various
subgroups, the same social and religious factors were at work, but with differing
intensity.
~~~~~~~~~~
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Editor
in Chief, Larq journal for philosohpy, linguistics and social sciences and
researcher of the Samaritan sect
Researches
published in various scientific journals
-
Features of the linguistic movement of Jews in the Middle Ages 2013.
-
The Jewish community of Samaritans 2013.
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Introduction to the study of Hebrew Samaritan language 2013.
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The Samaria community between Jewish rejection and the reality of the Assyrian
texts 2014.
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Miscellaneous Tales of the Samaritan Heritage in the Middle Ages Study and
Investigation 2014.
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Arabic Language of Medieval Jewish Literature 2014.
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Effect of the Arabic linguistic term in the Hebrew term Samaritan 2015.
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Manuscripts in Samaritan community tests investigated and studied 2015.
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Linguistic convergence between The Karaites Grammar School and the Samaritan
school in the middle Ages 2016.
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The Samaritan Savior Age of "Tahib" is a comparative study in the
Semitic holy texts. 2019
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Iraq Between the Jewish And the Samaritan texts of the Pentateuch: A
comparative Study in the Archaeology of the Holly Bible 2019
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The Historical Roots and Their Civilization Origins in Palestine:An Applied
Study in the Ancient Texts 2019
Himbaza, Innocent. “Looking
at the Samaritan Pentateuch from Qumran: Legal Material of Leviticus and
Deuteronomy.” In The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea
Scrolls. Ed. by Michael
Langlois. Pages 199-216. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis
& Theology 94. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
Joosten, Jan. “Biblical
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the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ed. by Michael
Langlois. Pages 313-325. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis
& Theology 94. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
Kartveit, Magnar. “Scholars’
Assessments of the Relationship between the Pre-Samaritan Texts and the
Samaritan Pentateuch.” In The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead
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Langlois. Pages 1-18. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis &
Theology 94. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
Knoppers, Gary N. “Altared
States: The Altar Laws in the Samaritan and Jewish Pentateuchs, and Their Early
Interpreters.” In The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea
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to Biblical Exegesis &
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Langlois,
Michael. “Dead
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Langlois. Pages 255-286. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis
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Noseda,
Sergio Noja
Bibliographia Selecta: Sergio Noja Noseda / List of
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Available) · August 2017
Schorch, Stefan. “The
So-Called Gerizim Commandment in the Samaritan Pentateuch.” In The
Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ed. by Michael
Langlois. Pages 77-98. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis &
Theology 94. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
Stadel, Christian. “Variegation
in Second Temple Period Hebrew: Passive t-Stems, the הלז
Demonstrative Series, and אפוא in Samaritan Hebrew and
in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” In The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead
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Langlois. Pages 287-312. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis
& Theology 94. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
Tal,
Abraham. “Do
the Samaritan Pentateuch and 1QIsaᵃ Follow the Same Model?” In The
Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ed. by Michael
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Tov,
Emanuel. “From
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der Meer, Michaël N. “Exclusion and Expansion: Harmonisations in the Samaritan
Pentateuch, Pre-Samaritan Pentateuchal Manuscripts and Non-Pentateuchal
Manuscripts.” In The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea
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Langlois. Pages 127-198. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis
& Theology 94. Leuven: Peeters, 2019.
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Biblio
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Archibald Pollok
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Stefan
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So Called Gerizim Commandment in the Samaritan Pentateuch in The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Dead Sea
Scrolls, ed. M. Langlois
(Peeters), 2019
The
Gerizim composition found in the Samaritan text of the Ten Commandments in Exod
20 and Deut 5, according to medieval manuscripts, presents a deliberate scribal
attempt to stress some main points of Pentateuchal hermeneutics, completely in
line with the hermeneutics and the literary techniques attested in the
pre-Samaritan textual layer. Nothing in the Gerizim composition itself, or in
its insertion at these points of the Pentateuch narrative, is specifically
“Samaritan.” Rather, the authors of this insertion seem to have been part of
the scribal culture shared by followers of both the Jerusalem and Gerizim
sanctuary.
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Barry Dov
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it is Written”: Judaic Treasures from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
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George Rev.
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Lands of the Bible: Visited and Described in an Extensive Journey Undertaken
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