Tib蚯 M蚌qe: The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110442328)

Tib蚯 M蚌qe 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. Tib蚯 M蚌qe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and poet, M蚌qe.
This publication of Tib蚯 M蚌qe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim, Tib蚯 M蚌qe, 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.