Comparing the SamP with MT systematically, I think I am seeing a nearly consistently different use of waw in lists, and in Exodus, several places where SamP's דבר corresponds to MT's אמר, oddly. Anyone know of scholarship on these? #HebrewBible#TextualCriticism#SamaritanPentateuch
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I'm amused by a textual variation in #Genesis#HebrewBible#TextualCriticism
What can we know about the changes or stability of the text of the #HebrewBible#OldTestamentbsky.app/profile/wger...
Here's a fun one: near synonyms due to near #haplography#dittography#Genesis#HebrewBible#TextualCriticism
In which I learned: (1) Cambridge University Library has posted the oldest known Samaritan Pentateuch manuscript online, (2) Samaritan manuscript script looks crazy but is really regular, & (3) with squinting at the Samaritan script Wikipedia page, I can read Samaritan! bsky.app/profile/ot-t...
I got curious and found a manuscript of SamP here: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-... On image 287 (folio 140r), line 9 from the bottom, I read the father's name as דעואל in Num 2:14 as well, which would make SamP = D always. Since d/r is less confusable in Samaritan script, probably D is original.
The Samaritan Pentateuch contains the text of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, written in the consonantal
Reviving my analysis of names of God in #Genesis#HebrewBible#TextualCriticismbsky.app/profile/ot-t...
There's an interesting asymmetry in using the Dead Sea Scrolls for #HebrewBible#TextualCriticism . On the one hand, DSS attest to many important variant readings, including substantiating many readings which were merely conjectural until the DSS were read. 1/?