The Samaritan Torah

The Samaritan Torah in your pocket: the Five Books of Moses in the Samaritan version, in Samaritan script and in Hebrew letters, with tools for study and comparison.

The text, its divisions, the commentary, the word data and the Samaritan font come from "The Israelite Samaritan Torah" by Osher Sassoni, used with his permission; every other source is credited in the app.

READING
• The full text of the Five Books: in Samaritan script, in Hebrew letters, line under line, or side by side.
• The Samaritan division into sections (qissim), and the Jewish division into chapters and weekly portions.
• Optional vowel points: the marks of a printed vocalized edition, shown above the Samaritan letters. Off by default.
• Zoom the text, and scroll or turn pages.

STUDY
• Compare versions: each verse of the Samaritan text beside the Masoretic text, Qumran, the Septuagint, Onkelos and the Targums, with the differing words marked in colour.
• Tap a word: its meaning, the Samaritan Targum, Arabic and English, the Samaritan and Jewish traditions, and its root.
• Go from a word to every place it occurs in the Torah, and to the forms derived from the same root.
• Textual variants from Samaritan manuscripts, with each manuscript's name, date and where it is kept.
• Verse commentary, and Aramaic, Arabic and English translations.
• Search the whole Torah, and keep bookmarks.

LIBRARY
Eight works from the Samaritan shelf: Tibåt Mårqe (Memar Marqah), Ṣadaqah al-Ḥakīm on Genesis, the Responsa of Jacob ben Aaron, Sīr al-Qulūb (Secret of Hearts), the Book of Asatir, the commentary on Im Beḥuqotay, Samaritan piyyutim, and Samaritan figures and scholars. Bible quotations link to the verse itself. Also: the Samaritan historical timeline.

RECITATION
Recordings of the Torah read in the traditional Samaritan chant. A recording streams the first time you play it and is kept on the device, so you can hear it again offline.

FROM OSHER SASSONI'S SITES
The Samaritan calendar, the full Samaritan genealogy, the Treasury of Samaritan Song and the Samaritan Manuscript Treasury load from the web and need a connection.

TWO DISPLAY STYLES
"Classic", or "Avnei Shoham", the look of The Israelite Samaritan Torah app. Switch in Settings.

Interface in Hebrew, English and Arabic. Apart from the recordings and the web pages, everything works offline.

Free, with no ads, no purchases, no sign-up and no tracking. Your settings and bookmarks stay on your device.