Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Samaritan M.S. on Vellum, Probably Se, XV.

"Plate 4 is taken from a copy, written on vellum at Nablus, of the Samaritan Pentateuch. Both in language and in letters it represents the old Hebrew of the days of Solomon, long anterior to the time when Ezra introduced from Chaldgea the square characters now called Hebrew; the ancient letters having been preserved by a small remnant in North Palestine. The writing resembles that of the Phoenicians, and the example given on plate 4, notwithstanding its lateness, does not exhibit a very much modified form of the character." 

Plates from O. V. Palaeography: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

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