Deuteronomy: The Samaritan Version
Deuteronomy - Outside the Box - Diana V. Edelman
Sidnie White Crawford [+]
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Sidnie White Crawford holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and is Professor emerita in Hebrew Bible at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. She has published The Text of the Pentateuch: Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), and Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019).
Description
The version of Deuteronomy that is the canonical text of the Samaritans differs in important ways from the Masoretic version of Deuteronomy. Examining those differences yields important information regarding the textual history of Deuteronomy as well as the history of the relations between Samaritans and Jews.