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The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah (Samaritan Hebrew: ࠕࠦࠅࠓࠡࠄ , Tūrā), is the sacred scripture of the Samaritans. [1] Written in the Samaritan script , it dates back to one of the ancient versions of the Torah that existed during the Second Temple period .
An Arabic translation was also made of the text, as also a Samaritan modern Hebrew translation, called Pitron. An English translation of the Samaritan modern Hebrew translation, Pitron, was made by Gaster. The Asatir is often cited by 17th and 18th-century Arabic authors, Muslim al-Danār and Ibrahim al-Ayya, in their Bible commentaries. [13]
For example, the English word trumpet has been replaced by the Hebrew word "shofar" (שופר, literally, ram's horn) in reference to the wind instrument used to announce the fiftieth year. [4] Other words that are transliterated include Torah instead of Law , Shaliaḥ instead of apostle , and Ruaḥ instead of spirit .
The Samaritan Pentateuch contains some differences from the Masoretic version of the Torah used in Judaism; according to Samaritan tradition, key parts of the Jewish text were fabricated by Ezra. [ r ] The Samaritan version of the Book of Joshua also differs from the Jewish version , which focuses on Shiloh .
The Hebrew-Samaritan source is based upon the Septuagint translation of Joshua. A Hebrew résumé of the story of Shaubak (ch. xxvi.–xxxvii.) was inserted in Abraham Zacuto's Sefer Yuhasin by Samuel Shullam, who declared that he found it in a Samaritan chronicle (Sefer Zikronot shel Kutim), where it is said to have been taken from a Jewish ...
Mount Gerizim continues to be the centre of Samaritan religion, and Samaritans ascend it three times a year: at Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. [1] Passover is still celebrated by the Samaritans with a lamb sacrifice on Mount Gerizim. [8] The Samaritan village of Kiryat Luza and an Israeli settlement, Har Brakha, are situated on the ridge of ...
It is a translation and updating of the German-language Koehler-Baumgartner Lexicon, which first appeared in 1953, into English; the first volume was published in 1994 [2] the fourth volume, completing the Hebrew portion, was published in 1999, [3] and the fifth volume, on Aramaic, was published in 2000. [4]
A bilingual Hebrew-English edition of the full Hebrew Bible, in facing columns, was published in 1999. It includes the second edition of the NJPS Tanakh translation (which supersedes the 1992 Torah) and the Masoretic Hebrew text as found in the Leningrad Codex. The recent series of JPS Bible commentaries all use the NJPS translation.