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The Samaritan Pentateuch (Paperback)
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The Samaritan Pentateuch (Paperback)
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Loot Price R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
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From the introductory. For several years prior to my tour of
Palestine in 1902, I had noted with interest the accounts, in books
on biblical antiquities, of the Holy Scroll at Nablus. This
manuscript, containing the Pentateuch, is believed to be the oldest
manuscript in existence of any portion of the Bible. As the priests
show it with great reluctance, and are supposed to exhibit it, even
to their own people, only once a year, on the Day of Atonement, I
was anxious that they should not substitute for it, at the time of
my visit, the more recent parchment which on ordinary occasions
they display. My friend, Mr. E. K. Warren, chairman of the World's
Sunday-school Convention Committee of Arrangements, had visited
Palestine the year before, and had seen the ancient scroll. He gave
me a letter of introduction to the High Priest, written on his
business letter-head, which rather formidable-looking document I
found of service on --- my arrival in Nablus....
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