Talk:Samaritan Pentateuch
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Quite a lot of information about the textual variants of the Samarian text was obtained from the Dead Sea scrolls. This should be included. --Zero 03:01, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I added a link to my page which discusses the differences between the Samaritan version and other versions. Would it be appropriate to link to my book which shows the two texts side-by-side with differences highlighted? (http://web.meson.org/religion/torahcompare.php)
Also, the image shown labeled "Samaritan Pentateuch" is in Samaritan writing—but it isn't the Pentateuch. In fact, it looks like the language is actually Arabic and not Hebrew (might be Aramaic). I'm not sure about that, but it definitely doesn't read like any part of the Pentateuch I've seen. Clsn 02:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Info on other page
Here's some info on Bible conspiracy page: AnonMoos 08:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- Samaritans hold that the Talmud was merely the attempt of those taken into the Babylonian Captivity to reassert their political authority over those Hebrews who remained in Judah, and also that they contaminated Judaism with Zoroastrianism; Samaritans view Ezra as the great corrupter of scripture (rather than the great restorer). The Samaritans have their own version of the first six books of the Bible, with the first five being known by scholars as the Samaritan Pentateuch, showing many variations from the masoretic text of the Torah (which is used by non-Samaritan Jews, and which is a major basis for most Christian Bible translations). A few of these differences are related to Samaritan beliefs (such as changing the roles of Gerizim and Ebal), while most are due to small spelling regularizations and modernizations of archaic or difficult-to-understand Hebrew forms in the Samaritan text (as opposed to the Masoretic text, where there was much more emphasis on lectio difficilior). However, the Samaritan text is still an important resource for Biblical textual scholars, since it is an early independent witness to the history of the Biblical text (there has been little or no influence or harmonization between Samaritan and Jewish text versions since before the Maccabee period).
[edit] Stolen scrolls not menetioned
Hostage Scrolls
The Samaritans, now reduced to only 600 people, must come up with a million dollars in ransom to get their holy books back. The two scrolls, said to be 700 and 400 years old respectively, were stolen from a Samaritan synagogue in the West Bank city of Nablus over three years ago. The thieves spirited the scrolls out of the country, and only recently did they surface in Amman, Jordan, where they were viewed by Samaritan elders. It is believed that they were stolen by a person who was familiar with where they were kept. Most of the Samaritans live on the mountaintop above Nablus, which is their holiest site. It is there, they believe, that God commanded Abraham to offer his son Isaac in sacrifice. Quoted from Watching the world, Awake magazine!--72.38.211.144 (talk) 21:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
