Tibåt Mårqe: The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary (Studia Samaritana)

Tibåt Mårqe is a collection of midrashic compositions, which, in the main, rewrites the Pentateuch, expanding its sometimes laconic presentation of events and precepts. Most of it aims at providing the reader with theological, didactic and philosophical teachings, artistically associated with the passages of the Torah. Here and there poetic pieces are embedded into its otherwise prosaic text. Tibåt Mårqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and poet, Mårqe. This publication of Tibåt Mårqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim, Tibåt Mårqe, a Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem 1988), based on a 16th century manuscript. Though he recognized the precedence of an earlier manuscript, dated to the 14th century, Ben-Hayyim was compelled to prefer the former, given the fragmentary state of the latter. He printed its fragments in parallel with the younger one, to which his annotations and discussions chiefly pertain. With the recent discovery of a great portion of the missing parts of the 14th century manuscript, this edition endeavors to present the older form of the composition. The present book may be relevant to people interested in literature, language, religion, and Samaritan studies. "Tibåt Mårqe is a collection of midrashic compositions, which, in the main, rewrites the Pentateuch, expanding its sometimes laconic presentation of events and precepts. Most of it aims at providing the reader with theological, didactic and philosophical teachings, artistically associated with the passages of the Torah. Here and there poetic pieces are embedded into its otherwise prosaic text. Tibåt Mårqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and poet, Mårqe. This publication of Tibåt Mårqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim, Tibåt Mårqe, a Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem 1988), based on a 16th century manuscript. Though he recognized the precedence of an earlier manuscript, dated to the 14th century, Ben-Hayyim was compelled to prefer the former, given the fragmentary state of the latter. He printed its fragments in parallel with the younger one, to which his annotations and discussions chiefly pertain. With the recent discovery of a great portion of the missing parts of the 14th century manuscript, this edition endeavors to present the older form of the composition. The present book may be relevant to people interested in literature, language, religion, and Samaritan studies." -- Provided by publisher Die Reihe Studia Samaritana versammelt Bände aus dem gesamten Gebiet wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen zu den Samaritanern, von den antiken Befunden bis hin zur Erforschung der gegenwärtigen samaritanischen Gemeinschaft und ihrer Traditionen. Besondere Schwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Geschichte, Kultur, Literatur, Religion und Ethnographie der Samaritaner. Die Reihe wird in Zusammenarbeit mit der Société d'Études Samaritaines herausgegeben und ist bibliographisch in die Reihe Studia Judaica integriert (jeweils separate Bandzählung in beiden Reihen) Table of Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction 11 Bibliography 30 Abbreviations 37 Book One: The Book of Wonders 42 Book Two: By the Depths of the Spring of Eden 156 Book Three: “Moses and the Levitical Priests said” 208 Book Four: Treatise about the “Great Song” 324 Book Five: Treatise about “Moses died there” 478 Book Six: A Treatise composed of the Twenty Two Letters 522 Index 613