Samaritan Tradition

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Important for understanding how the Samaritan Pentateuch is read inside Samaritan tradition, especially where translation and interpretation expose sectarian differences.

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Major Samaritan theological work for Moses, covenant, holiness, Mount Gerizim, and Samaritan identity.

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Use for manuscript-history context, not for unsourced textual claims. The comparison anchor remains the Samaritan Pentateuch versus Masoretic and Septuagintal traditions.

Public domain (US) — published London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1911 (pre-1929); Cornell University Library scan

Public-domain scholarly study (144 pp). LCCN a13000435; ark:/13960/t7br9cb1b. Useful PD comparison/criticism context for the Samaritan-vs-Masoretic textual differences; safe to import or quote. Plain-text OCR available.

COPYRIGHTED — Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013 (Benyamim Tsedaka & Sharon Sullivan). The archive.org copy (identifier samaritan_pentateuch) is a user upload in a Folkscanomy collection and is NOT rights-cleared

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BEST rights-safe path to display the Samaritan Pentateuch text itself. Authors/copyright holders: Moshe Florentin & Abraham Tal; Open Book Publishers (Cambridge), 'Semitic Languages and Cultures' series no. 30; DOI 10.11647/OBP.0415; OCLC 1493369172; 1124 pp. Open mirror: https://archive.org/details/c626ab74-3df2-4291-a871-030f76c129b5. License CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Parallel layout: English (left) and Samaritan Hebrew (right), with Samaritan-vs-Masoretic differences marked in red and explained in footnotes/endnotes; based on MS Nablus 6 (1204 CE). DISPLAY PLAN: if The Sacred Matrix's use qualifies as non-commercial, this can be displayed in full WITH attribution to Florentin & Tal / Open Book Publishers and a link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license; set commercial_use_allowed=false and allow_full_display only after admin confirms NC compatibility. If NC is incompatible with site use, fall back to quoting limited excerpts with attribution. LINKING PLAN: align by Torah book + chapter + verse to the existing Hebrew Bible Pentateuch already in the corpus (genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, deuteronomy) for side-by-side Samaritan vs Masoretic comparison; surface the famous variants (e.g., Mount Gerizim in the Decalogue/Deut, Exodus/Numbers expansions). Pairs with the 'Samaritan Pentateuch Source Guide' dossier.

Public domain (US) — Library of Congress copy: 'unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item'

Public-domain scholarly study (42 pp; Oberlin: Bibliotheca Sacra Co., 1903). LCCN 03030973; OCLC 1157191481; ark:/13960/t80k4074f. Good for a rights-safe introductory/context essay on Samaritan transmission and survival; safe to import or quote. Plain-text OCR available for segmentation.