Samaritan Pentateuch

[slaveofone]

I really think it has been undervalued both by layman and scholar alike... You usually hear people say the only significant difference is an “addition” to the ten commandments... But the entire thing is actually quite different on many levels, like, for instance, the way it has a much fuller and extended account of Moses speaking the words of God to Pharaoh in Exodus. And now we have Dead Sea Scrolls that are specifically “Samaritan” or “pre-Samaritan” or whatever you want to call them—like 4QPaleoExodusM--scrolls that follow the SP against both the LXX and the Masoretic...scrolls that were used nowhere near Samaria, but by Judeans. It's easy to write the SP off when one hasn't even looked at it. And looking at a few divergences here or there can give one the feeling that we are dealing with one of those “rewritten” scriptures. But until we can look at the thing in its entirety, it is hard to make any real assessment.

It's a real shame the SP isn't translated in English anywhere. I'm almost tempted to do my own English translation and put it up online. How cool would that be...to be the first person in history to translate the whole SP entirely into English?

For those who want to take a gander, the critical edition by Von Gall is freely available online:
http://rosetta.reltech.org/cgi-bin/E...tml/TC/vonGall

[Menachem]

I really think it has been undervalued both by layman and scholar alike... You usually hear people say the only significant difference is an “addition” to the ten commandments... But the entire thing is actually quite different on many levels, like, for instance, the way it has a much fuller and extended account of Moses speaking the words of God to Pharaoh in Exodus. And now we have Dead Sea Scrolls that are specifically “Samaritan” or “pre-Samaritan” or whatever you want to call them—like 4QPaleoExodusM--scrolls that follow the SP against both the LXX and the Masoretic...scrolls that were used nowhere near Samaria, but by Judeans. It's easy to write the SP off when one hasn't even looked at it. And looking at a few divergences here or there can give one the feeling that we are dealing with one of those “rewritten” scriptures. But until we can look at the thing in its entirety, it is hard to make any real assessment.

It's a real shame the SP isn't translated in English anywhere. I'm almost tempted to do my own English translation and put it up online. How cool would that be...to be the first person in history to translate the whole SP entirely into English?

For those who want to take a gander, the critical edition by Von Gall is freely available online:
http://rosetta.reltech.org/cgi-bin/E...tml/TC/vonGall

The differences between the Samaritan writings and the Torah is very significant. I own a copy of a comparison text between our Torah and the Samaritan writing. Whole sections are added into the Samaritan writing as well as orthographical differences and others. The one you listed only one of so many.

[Shomron]

You will find on Amazon.com a new English Translation of the Samaritan Torah will be out July 2011 written by Samaritan Benny Tezdeaka

[apostoli]

You will find on Amazon.com a new English Translation of the Samaritan Torah will be out July 2011 written by Samaritan Benny Tezdeaka

Price US$63+shipping. Here is a link to pre-order from Amazon if anyone is interested...
http://www.amazon.com/Israelite-Sama...0362067&sr=1-2