The Hebrew text of the parallel prophecies of Jacob and Moses relating to the twelve tribes; with a translation and notes. And the various lections of near forty mss. To which are added 1o. The Samaritan-Arabic version of those passages, and part of another Arabic version made from the Samaritan text; neither of which have been before printed; IIo. A map of the Land of Promise. and IIIo. An appendix containing four dissertations. [Title continues in note] / by D. Durell, B.D. principal of Hertford College.

  • Durell, D. (David), 1728-1775.
Date:
1763
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Credit: The Hebrew text of the parallel prophecies of Jacob and Moses relating to the twelve tribes; with a translation and notes. And the various lections of near forty mss. To which are added 1o. The Samaritan-Arabic version of those passages, and part of another Arabic version made from the Samaritan text; neither of which have been before printed; IIo. A map of the Land of Promise. and IIIo. An appendix containing four dissertations. [Title continues in note] / by D. Durell, B.D. principal of Hertford College. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <l /Era.” There is befides another Date to he feen in the Booh, viz. “ in “ the Jirfi Month Ginmadi of the Tear 939 of the Reign of the Sons of “Ifmaei.” Now as there is no Reafon affigned for the Infertion of this latter Date, and it cannot be fuppofed that a Book of that Size took up eight Tears in tranfcribing, I imagine the Copyift ufed both thofe Dates, with a View to point out the fame Period of Time but according to two different Computations of the Hegira, viz. from Anno Dom. 622, which is the Time fixed by the Chrifiian Writers for the Commencement of that Epocha, and from the Tear 630, as Amafifixes it among the Mo ham- ?nedans. And what feems to give Weight to this Conjecture, is the dif - ferent Mode of ExpreJJion ufed in relation to the Arabs. The MS. above-mentioned is written for the mofi Part on Vellum in a running Hand ; but the Character is large and fufficiently diftinCi. It is of a Quarto Form: each Page contains two Columns; on the right Hand is the Verfion, and on the left the Samaritan Text: and the Place where it may be found is the fame as that of the Samaritan MS. marked B. in the Table. Dr. Kennicott •f• has noted the Places where it is deficient, and has given a true Defcription of it. Hence it is that Dr. C aft ell J calls it a Fragment; which unhappily is too true: but the diligent man- ner in which that great Orientalifi read it Jhews what Value he fet on it. I fhall only add in regard to the Samaritan-Arabic Verfion that it appears to me, from what I examined of it, to be as clofe as the Mauri- tanian (publijhed by Erpenius) without running into the fame Extremes', and, in general\ to be fuperior to Saadias s Verfion or that which is print- ed in the Polyglots, by its faithful Reprefentation of the Text. And this Circumfiance ought not to be forgotten. That, as it was certainly made from the Samaritan Text, it adds no fmall Weight to the Jew valuable MSS. we have written in that Character. ן < Some Time after the two Chapters of the Samaritan-Arabic Verfion had been printed off, I difcovered by means of Dr. Kennicott that there was in the Bodleian Library a MS. Arabic Verfion of the Samaritan Pentateuch. After having examined it, I tranfcribed from this latter the four Verfes which are wanting in the other: I have added them as a Supplement ; andfubjoined the Various LeCiions between both, that we may have likewife a Specimen of this Verfion. This I thought would be a better Method, than to print the whole two Chapters, and that it would be fufficient to note the Difference in the Senfe offfome particular Words. f Frrft Diflertat. P. 31. X Prefat. ad Lex. Heptag. P. 1. b Whether