{"id":55254,"date":"2023-03-04T01:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T06:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=55254"},"modified":"2022-12-17T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T13:07:09","slug":"the-samaritans-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2023\/03\/04\/the-samaritans-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Samaritans&#8211; Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Hebrew of the Samaritans varies in form, just as the content of their Torah varies from the Masoretic text as well.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a comparison of the alphabets\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105833-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55263\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105833-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105841-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55266\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/thumbnail_20221109_105841-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Samaritan letters are more cursive in form.\u00a0 Here is an inscription on stone of the ten commandments.\u00a0 Basically they are the same as in our OT except one of them mentions Mt. 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