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?