Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Schmuel <schmuel AT escape.com>]

Hi  b-hebrew,

Thomas L. Thompson
>The Samaritan Pentateuch is a medieval text. For a discussion of this 
>manuscript tradition see I. Hjelm, The Samaritans and Early Judaism 
>(Sheffield 2000), p. 76-83.

By a medieval text does one mean that it was actually written at that time ?
Or that we have not found archeological trace of an earlier such text ?

If someone who has the Hjelm article could expand on this a little, 
it would be greatly appreciated.

Apparently scholars like Emanuel Tov consider it as a Bible that deserves be 
thrown into
their textcrit mix, along with the DSS, the LXX, Vulgate, Peshitta, Targum, 
etc. I am not
sure why they would do that if it was simply a medieval text. 

I know that early CE writers reference their pronunciation of the 
Tetragrammaton.  
Are there no references to their Tanach ?

Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY

Marianne Luban
>        Is there any recent consensus on the date of the Samaritan 
> Pentateuch? Is
>        there a general agreement that it dates to the Hasmonean era?