Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Rabbiner Dr. Samuel Kohn—A Man, a Philosopher, a Barrier Breaker IX
4. Contents XV
5. Abbreviations XIX
6. Samaritan History and Material Remains
7. Images of Sanballat in History and Tradition 1
8. Sanballat II (?) of Samaria 13
9. Samaritan Synagogue Mosaics and the Mt. Gerizim Temple 23
10. Samaritan Greek and Aramaic Texts
11. The Greek Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim 45
12. “Moses and Aaron went to Egypt”—Tibåt Mårqe and Rabbinic Literature 59
13. The Death of Moses According to Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and Tibåt Mårqe 91
14. Samaritan Arabic Interpretations
15. Too Much Wine Distracts the Mind! – A Samaritan Arabic Polemic Against the Jewish Understanding of Gen 49:11‒12 113
16. The Concept of tadwīn in Abū l-Ḥasan’s Commentary on the Decalogue 139
17. The Samaritan Oath in the Mamlūk Period 169
18. Linguistic Studies
19. On the Meaning of זבח שכח and the Samaritan Addition to Exod 23:19a 189
20. Lexical Studies in Samaritan Aramaic 201
21. Yahweh and the Samaritan Pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton 223
22. Dating a “Significant Variant”: The Contribution and Limits of the Qumran Manuscripts and Punctuation Marks in the Samaritan Manuscripts 253
23. Rice from Heaven: Origin and Posterity of a Curious Variant in the Samaritan Textual Tradition 263
24. The Samaritan Pentateuch as an Intralingual Translation: Insights into Textual Criticism from Translation Theory and Complex Systems Theory 283
25. Samaritan Manuscripts
26. The Tashqil 297
27. Samaritan Materials in the Abraham Harkavy Collection: Selected Issues 355
28. Abstracts and keywords 369
29. Index of Authors 379
30. Index of Sources 387