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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Samaritan Pentateuch and Documentary Hypothesis
  • Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:10:12 -0500


The extract below puzzles me. Can anyone explain its relevance to the
Samaritan Pentateuch? What evidence does the SP provide for the
existence of separate documents, or how the Pentateuch might be
assigned to different documents? (Point taken about Gilgamesh and the
Diatessaron - but what are the other examples in the middle of the
from...through range?)

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Samaritan Pentateuch and dating the Hebrew Pentateuch
Author: <Polycarp66 AT aol.com> at Internet
Date: 18/12/1999 19:57

<snip>

After discussing eight ways in which the SP has been altered from the text
commonly received in its tradition and that of the proto-Masoretic text,
Bruce K. Waltke concludes:

D. Value of the Samaritan Pentateuch

<snip>

The Sam. Pent. is of greater interest for literary criticism. First,
as Tigay (1975) noted, the supplemented proto-Samaritan texts and Sam.
Pent. give indirect empirical evidence for the documentary hypothesis.
More accurately, it validates a documentary hypothesis. The phenomenon
of sewing formerly independent documents into a new, unified whole can
be observed from the Gilgamesh Epic through Tatian's Diatasseron.
Before his very eyes the critic can observe the redactor at work
splicing texts together. The resulting work is not a "crazy patchwork"
of sources, as once thought, but a unified whole. ...

<snip>





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