torah

Transmission

The Samaritan Pentateuch

Of all the manuscript witnesses to the Pentateuch that have survived from antiquity, none is more puzzling, more singular, and more stubbornly useful to the textual scholar than the Samaritan Pentateuch. The…

Scripture

The Septuagint and the Letter of Aristeas

The oldest translation of any part of the Hebrew Bible is the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Torah and the rest of the Jewish scriptures produced in the Hellenistic period. The…