Critical Edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch: Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy - Part C: Deuteronomy

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Stefan Schorch
• Subject Area: Protestant Theology
• Term: from 2011 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 175938478

The project aims at a scholarly edition of the Hebrew text of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Although the Samaritan Pentateuch is one of the most important source texts for the academic study of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Hebrew language, there is no edition available, which meets scholarly standards.The present edition is based on the oldest manuscript tradition of the Samaritan Pentateuch (12th-14th century CE.), includes variants from the traditional translations of the Samaritan Pentateuch (i.e., Samaritan Targum and Samaritan-Arabic translation) as well as from the liturgical reading of the Pentateuch as handed down among the Samaritans, and lists parallels to the Samaritan text as found in non-Samaritan textual witnesses, espacially the Septuagint, the Peshitta, and in manuscripts from Qumran. The current stage of the project, devoted to the edition of Numbers (= project phase B), will terminate by May 2016, and the present request for extension relates to project phase C, as laid out and scheduled in the initial request for funding: Accordingly, project phase C will be devoted to the scholarly edition of Deuteronomy, as transmitted in the Samaritan Pentateuch.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants