The Samareitikon (Greek: τὸ Σαμαρειτικὸν) is the name given to the Greek translation of the

Samaritan Pentateuch The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah (Samaritan Hebrew: , ), is the Religious text, sacred scripture of the Samaritans. Written in the Samaritan script, it dates back to one of the ancient versions of the Torah that existe ...

. The Samareitikon is obtained only from marginal notes in other manuscripts and quotations in

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. As

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has shown, these passages show dependencies on the

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. According to Emanuel Tov, however, it is only an early revision of the

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text, which could also be a Samaritan version of the Septuagint. This thesis may be supported by the text version of an inscription found in

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with the Aaronic blessing

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6,22-27 in a building in the 4th century Samaritan synagogue.published by Baruch Lifshitz; Jacob Schiby: ''Une synagogue samaritaine à Thessalonique.'' In: Revue Biblique 75 (1968), pp. 368–378.

References

* Frankel, Zacharias ‘Über den Einfluss der palälastinischen Exegese auf die alexandrinische Hermeneutik‘ p. 127. Leipzig, 1831. * Field, Frederick. ''Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive veterum interpretum graecorum in totum Vetus Testamentum fragmenta.'' Oxford 1875 eudruck 1964 * Glaue, Paul; Rahlfs, Alfred. ''Fragmente einer griechischen Übersetzung des samaritanischen Pentateuchs.'' Mitteilungen des Septuaginta-Unternehmens 1,2. Berlin 1911. * Tov, Emanuel. ''Pap. Gießen 13, 19, 22, 26. A Revision of the LXX?'' In:

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78 (1971), S. 355–383. * Tov, Emanuel. ‘Pap. Giessen 13, 19, 22, 26: A Revision of the Septuagint?’ Pages 439-475 in The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint. Leiden: Brill, 1999. * Bülow-Jacobsen, A and Strange, J. ‘P. Carlsberg 49: Fragment of an Unknown Greek Translation of the Old Testament (Exod. 3,2-6. 12-13. 16-19). Same Codex as H 16 (Strasb. inv. 748)’ Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 32 (1986): 15-21. * Geiger, Abraham. ‘Einleitung in die biblischen Schriften.’ Pages 1-279 in Nachgelassene Schriften. Vol 4. Edited by Ludwig Geiger. Berlin: Louis Gershel Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1876. * Joosten, Jan. ‘The Samareitikon and the Samaritan Tradition’ Pages 346-59 in Die Septuaginta - Text, Wirkung, Rezeption. Edited by Kraus von Wolfgang and Siegfried Kreuzer. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2014. * Joosten, Jan. ‘Septuagint and Samareitikon.’ Pages 1-15 in Author to Copyist: Essays on the Composition, Redaction, and Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Zipi Talshir. Edited by Cana Werman. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015. * Kohn, Samuel. ‘Samareitikon und Septuaginta’. Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 38 (1894), 1-7, 49-67. * Pummer, Reinhard. ‘The Greek Bible and the Samaritans’. Revue des Études Juives 157/3-4 (1998): 269-358. * Marsh, Bradley J. ‘The Samareitikon, Carl 49, and the κατα Σαμαρειτων Marginalia in CODEX M‘. SBL, (2016). * Crown, Alan David. ‘Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts‘, pp. 15-17. Mohr Siebeck, 2001. * Waaserstein, Jacob. ‘Samareitikon‘ CSS, 209-210 * Noja, S. ‘The Samareitikon‘, TS, 408-412 * Waltke, B.K. ‘Prolegomena to the Samaritan Pentateuch‘, HTR, 57 (1965): 463/464. Idem, ‘Prolegomena to the Samaritan Pentateuch‘, (Harvard University Ph.D thesis), (University Microfilms, 1965). * Marcos, Natalio (2000). The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Version of the Bible. Brill. pp. 167-169. * Schenker, A. ”Textgeschichtliches zum Samaritanischen Pentateuch und Samareitikon,” in Samaritans: Past and Present: Current Studies, Studia Samaritana 5 (eds. M. Mor und F. V. Reiterer; Berlin und New York: De Gruyter, 2000), pp. 105-121.

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