📖 The Samaritan Liturgy in two volumes (transcribed by A.E. Cowley 1909)
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open_content_license: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication date_src_start: -0200-00-00 date_src_end: 1909-00-00 languages_meta: [{"name":"Hebrew (Samaritan)","code":"smp","standard":"ISO 639-3"},{"name":"English","code":"eng","standard":"ISO 639-3"},{"name":"Arabic","code":"ara","standard":"ISO 639-3"}] scripts_meta: [{"name":"Hebrew (Ktav Ashuri)","code":"Hebr","standard":"ISO 15924"},{"name":"Latin","code":"Latn","standard":"ISO 15924"},{"name":"Arabic","code":"Arab","standard":"ISO 15924"}] Date: 2017-01-18
Last Updated: 2025-04-11
Categories: Samaritan Prayerbooks
Tags: Defter, Israelite-Samaritan, Samaritan, Shomrim, Needing Transcription, Nusaḥ haSamerim, Needing Decompilation
Excerpt: Arthur Earnest Cowley's transcription of a 13th or 14th century manuscript of an Israelite-Samaritan defter held in the Vatican library (V 3. Ff. 193, vellum, sm. 4to.). Besides prayers, the second volume also contains an introduction, list of manuscripts used, and a glossary of terms in Samaritan Aramaic, among other materials. . . .
Content: Arthur Earnest Cowley’s transcription of a 13th or 14th century manuscript of an Israelite-Samaritan defter held in the Vatican library (V 3. Ff. 193, vellum, sm. 4to.). Besides prayers, the second volume also contains an introduction, list of manuscripts used, and a glossary of terms in Samaritan Aramaic, among other materials. A critical translation made in English based upon this transcription was made by Solomon Brown as his dissertation at the University of Leeds in 1955. Solomon Brown also, crucially, provides the order in which this liturgy is arranged.
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Contributor: Benyamim Tsedaka
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Name: Benyamim Tsedaka
Bio: Benyamim (Benny) Tsedaka is one of the elders of his people. As an historian, he has published over 100 books and over 2000 articles in Hebrew and English on Israelite Samaritan life, collated by the Internal University Computer in Israel under ‘Samaritans’. Benyamim Tsedaka is Head of the Israelite Samaritan Information Centre. Benny is the author of the ‘Samaritans’ entries in Encyclopedia Judaica; Encyclopedia of Zionism (in English); The Hebrew Encyclopedia, Jerusalem; and Encyclopedia Britannica for Youth (in Hebrew). Benny’s Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah was published in May 2013. For the first time ever, English translations of the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Masoretic (Jewish) text are laid out in parallel columns with important differences noted.
Website: http://israelite-samaritans.com
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Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
Website: https://aharon.varady.net
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Title: Title from The Samaritan Liturgy vol.1 (A.E.Cowley, ed., 1909)
Caption: The Samaritan Liturgy vol.1 (A.E.Cowley, ed., 1909)
