Fragments of a Samaritan Targum: Edited from a Bodleian ms

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ... quoted by Alexander Polyhistor and preserved to us by Eusebius, some five or six appear to have had a decided bias either for or against the Samaritans; it would seem therefore extremely probable that a considerable controversial literature between Jews and Samaritans had sprung up by the first century B.C., of which only some few fragments now remain. 1 Cap. 22. Cf. Ewald, Gesch. (1864), iv. 338; Herzfeld, iii. 520; and Freudenthal, p. 99. No one but a Samaritan would have called Sichem Uptj Sue/pox: the work was probably not ittpi 'lovbaiam, but as described in the text. 2 Op. cit. ix. 20; Freudenthal, p. 100. 3 Sibyll. xi. 239-242; Ewald, ibid. p. 340. 4 Ant. xviii. 6. 4. 5 Eusebius, ibid. x. io. 6 Just. Mart. Coh. 9. 7 Syncellus, Chronographia, p. 322. 8 Theophilus, ad Autol. iii. 29. Of the Samaritan literature which has come down to our times, first in importance and order will be the Pentateuch. It had been well known to early Jewish and Christian writers that a recension of the Pentateuch differing in important respects from that in use among the Jews was in possession of the Samaritan community. It was regarded however by these writers in very different lights: the former treat it with contempt as a forgery. 'You 1 p. 68. The philosopher Marinus, a convert from Samaritanism to heathenism, the biographer and successor of the NeoPlatonist Proclus in the school of Athens in 485, speaks of Abraham's having 'sacrificed on Argarizim, where is the most holy temple of the supreme Zeus,' thus betraying his Samaritan origin. Photius, Bibl. p. 345 b. g2 s have falsified your Law,' says R. Elieser ben Simon1 to the Samaritan scribes about 160 A.d., 'and have done yourselves no good by it,' referring to their insertion of the words 'opposite Shechem' in Deut. ...