The Israelite Samaritan Torah
The Israelite Samaritan Torah
About this appThe Five Books of Moses as they have been kept by the Samaritan community, on Mount Gerizim and in Holon, for thousands of years. Read the Samaritan Pentateuch in the ancient Samaritan script or in Hebrew letters, divided into the Samaritan sections and chapters alongside the Jewish division.
What's inside
• Verse commentary from the Samaritan sources themselves: Tībåt Mårqe (Memar Marqe), the Book of Asatir, Sīr al-Qulūb, Abu'l-Faraj's commentary, responsa and traditional essays
• Compare versions with the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Targum Onkelos, plus textual variants from a critical edition
• Translations: the Samaritan Aramaic Targum, Arabic and English
• Word dictionary: Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic for every word, the HaMeliṣ lexicon, and a searchable index of words and roots
• Pronunciation: a phonetic transcription of the Samaritan reading tradition, with read-aloud
• Recordings: Samaritan readers' recitation traditions, with continuous play and repeat
• The Samaritan library: liturgical poems with a rhyme finder, a dictionary, notable people and scholars, and a historical timeline
• The Samaritan calendar: today's date, the weekly portion and the month's festivals
• Search, bookmarks, printing, and three interface languages (Hebrew · English · Arabic)
Who it's for
Learners, Bible scholars and students of Semitic languages, and anyone interested in the Samaritans and their tradition.
The app is free, has no ads and needs no sign-up. It is a volunteer project of Avnei Shoham, made to open the Samaritan library to everyone who seeks it.
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