Bible Review

Kahle (“The Abisha Scroll of the Samaritans” and The Cairo Geniza [Oxford: Blackwell, 1959]) and John Bowman (Transcript of the Original Text of the Samaritan Chronicle Tolidah [Leeds, UK: Leeds Univ. Oriental Soc., 1954]) have argued the opposite, namely that the end part of the scroll is the only original part and that all the rest was lost and replaced. The actual text reads:

Robertson (in his review of Father Castro’s Sefer Abisa in Vetus Testamentum 12.2 [1962], pp. 228–235) claims to have found such a reference, but it is not in the J.C. Scaliger manuscript published by Juynboll (see endnote 13). He may have been looking at some later version of the Book of Joshua.

Ytzchak Ben Zvi, “Sepher Abisha,” Eretz Israel 5 (1958), pp. 240–252 (in Hebrew).

See Paul Stenhouse, The Kitab al-Tarikh of Abu’l Fath (Sydney: Mandelbaum Publications, 1982).

Father Federico Perez Castro, Sefer Abisa, Textos y Estudios del Seminario Filologico Cardenal Disneros (Madrid, 1959).

Robertson, “Concerning the Abisha Scroll,” p. 27, note 2.

A photograph is reproduced in John Whiting, “The Last Blood Sacrifice, a Samaritan Rite in Palestine,” The National Geographic Magazine, January 1920.

Described in Georg Rosen, “Alte Handschriften des samaritanischen Pentateuch,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gessellschaft 18 (1864), pp. 582–589.