Identifier: samaritansearlie00montuoft (find matches)
Title: The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect; their history, theology, and literature
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Montgomery, James A. (James Alan), 1866-1949
Subjects: Samaritans
Publisher: Philadelphia J.C. Winston
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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which references have been cited in Chapter X.The Patristic writers likewise had cognizance of the Sa-maritan text, and the early Christian critics from Origendown make frequent reference to it, using it without preju-dice for the Jewish text, the latest Greek reference to itbeing found in George Syncellus (c. 800).3^ Then withthe decay of learning, all remembrance of the SamaritanPentateuch faded away, the Jews who could best have pre-served the tradition being doubtless glad to ignore it. But in 1616 Pietro della Valle, in his oriental journey,purchased a copy of this unknown text from Samaritansat Damascus, and forwarded it to Europe, where it came 3* Damascius, in Photius, Bibliotheca, 1055. ^5 Reland, Palcestina, 1005. 36 Origen, Hcxapla. ad Num. 13, i ; Jerome, Prol. gal; on Gal. 3, 10;Cyril of Alexandria (adduced by Migne to latter passage of Jerome) ;George Syncellus, Chronographia, 83 (ed. Bonn, p. 156) : the He-brews acknowledge it to be the earliest (cf. the same, p. 166).
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Pal. Ex. Fund. The Sacred Pentateuch Codex SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH 287 into the possession of the library of the Oratorians at Paris.Its pubhcation however was long- deferred, until at last itappeared, very badly edited, under the hand of Morinus,in the Paris Polyglot (1645). It was pubHshed again inthe London Polyglot (1657) by Walton, only the mostglaring typographical blunders having been corrected, buta much more complete and exact list of variations was ap-pended, the Latin version to some extent amended, and thedeviations of the Targum from the Pentateuch noted.^^Forthwith this text entered into all discussions. Kennicottcarefully noted the variants of the Samaritan MSS in hisgreat apparatus to the Hebrew Bible. Strangely enoughno satisfactory edition of this text has as yet been pub-lished, although two are now promised.^^ The codices of the Samaritan Pentateuch in Europeanlibraries have very much increased over the sixteen copiesknown to Kennicott, and some are to be found in pri

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