Samaritan Pentateuch
Paul Zellmer
zellmer at digitelone.com
Mon Sep 27 19:43:06 EDT 1999
(Sorry to continue this thread on the Greek list, but that's where it
was ongoing, and I'm not sure all the participants are members of the
Hebrew list. I'd check, but that's excluded by the list security
measures :^/ )
Jim,
Before I consider starting what for me is a lengthy procedure of
procuring Purvis' book, perhaps you can help me see if it would benefit
me greatly. Right now, I'm most interested in the cases of additional
waw's. Does he attempt to list all the places where the texts differ,
or does he tend more to summarize and then give a few examples?
Thanks for any info you can give.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: J.K. Aitken <jka12 at cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Samaritan Pentateuch
> The James Purvis book does not contain the text of the Smaritan
> Pentateuch, and as Jim west has pointed out there is no available
> translation. But there is unlikely ever to be one, sicne the
differences
> between the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Massoretic text are few. To
> translate it would be re-inventing the wheel.
> Most divergences from the MT (not speaking historical but
> 'synoptically' since the Sam is earlier!) are in the orthography
(mater
> lectionis etc. in Hebrew) and not in the sense, or in the addition of
> 'and' (waw) here and there. There are very few theological?content
> differences. These mostly are orientated around additions to the
portrayal
> of Moses in Deuteronomy.
> Most studies on the Sam Pentateuch (including to some extent
> Purvis) will discuss these differences.
>
> Jim Aitken
> Cambridge, UK
>
>
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