The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah

First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version

Benyamim Tsedaka, Sharon Sullivan, Benyamim Tsedaka, Sharon Sullivan

• Editorial: Eerdmans
• Año: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781467464543
• Categoría: Theology & Religion
• Categoría: Jewish Theology

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.

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword—Emanuel Tov
• Foreword—Steven Fine
• What Is the Samaritan Pentateuch?—James H. Charlesworth
• The First English Translation of the Israelite Samaritan Torah—Benyamim Tsedaka
• The Israelite Samaritan Text Compared with the Masoretic Text
• 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