The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version
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Overview
This landmark volume presents the first-ever English translation of the ancient Israelite Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, or Torah. A text of growing interest and importance in the field of biblical studies, the Samaritan Pentateuch preserves a version of the Hebrew text distinct from the traditional Masoretic Text that underlies modern Bible translations.
Benyamim Tsedaka’s expert English translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch is here laid out parallel to the more familiar Masoretic Text, highlighting the more than 6,000 differences between the two versions. In addition to extensive explanatory notes in the margins throughout, the book’s detailed appendices show affinities between the Samaritan and Septuagint versions and between the Samaritan and Dead Sea Scroll texts. Concluding the volume is a categorical name index containing a wealth of comparative information.
- Provides a precise presentation of the contents of the Hebrew text of the Samaritan Pentateuch
- Explores the agreements between the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Septuagint
- Contains an introduction to the text and translation
- Foreword - Emanuel Tov
- Foreword - Steve Fine
- What Is the Samaritan Pentateuch? - James Charlesworth
- The First English Translation of the Israelite Samaritan Torah
- The Israelite Samaritan Text Compared with the Masoretic Text
- Genesis
- Exodus
- Leviticus
- Numbers
- Deuteronomy
- Appendix a: LXX Torah Verses Identical with SP and Different from MT
- Appendix b: DSS Torah Verses Identical with SP, with Notation When LXX Is Also Identical
An easily accessible primary source for scholars in the fields of Religious Studies and Israelite traditions and folklore. . . . Readers interested in how the Torah shapes Samaritan religious life today will appreciate this firsthand information.
—Journal of the American Oriental Society
Allows people without the requisite linguistic skills to examine the untranslated texts yet who are interested in either the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament or the transmission of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, as well as people generally interested in traditions of interpretation and biblical studies, to access the traditional readings of the SP.
—Review of Biblical Literature
This landmark volume presents the first-ever English translation of the ancient Israelite Samaritan version of the Pentateuch, or Torah. . . . This book, providing in parallel columns the Israelite Samaritan Text (ST) and the Jewish Masoretic Text (MT), will be of particular interest to Bible collectors and laypersons in addition to Bible scholars. . . . This history-making volume is heartily recommended.
—Bible Review Journal
- Title: The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version
- Author: Benyamim Tsedaka
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 2
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Resource ID: {15055A96-12BF-4E6B-BFA0-A8FBF71DB961}
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T19:30:50Z
Benyamim Tsedaka is head of the A. B. Institute of Samaritan Studies in Holon, Israel, and founding editor of a biweekly Samaritan newsmagazine published in four languages.
Sharon Sullivan is North American representative of the A. B. Institute of Samaritan Studies.