01-24-2008, 04:22 PM
If you want to know the differences between the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Massoretic Text, the best book I have seen on the subject is by Mark Shoulson:
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this compares the two traditions side by side. You don't really need a new translation in my opinion, because the differences are not that great. I actually found it quite comforting that the differences were as slight as they were. Where there is a difference, this book makes it very easy to see what the difference is, and you can decide for yourself whether that difference is significant. In the book the SP is written in Hebrew characters to make it easy, because Samaritan manuscripts are normally written in a script similar to Palaeo-Hebrew. You need to know Hebrew to read the book, however.
- Ewan MacLeod
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this compares the two traditions side by side. You don't really need a new translation in my opinion, because the differences are not that great. I actually found it quite comforting that the differences were as slight as they were. Where there is a difference, this book makes it very easy to see what the difference is, and you can decide for yourself whether that difference is significant. In the book the SP is written in Hebrew characters to make it easy, because Samaritan manuscripts are normally written in a script similar to Palaeo-Hebrew. You need to know Hebrew to read the book, however.
- Ewan MacLeod