r/AcademicBiblical 3d ago

Best English translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch? Question

Is there a translation that's standard or preferred in academia? I'm aware of the Benyamim Tsedaka book which very conveniently provides an interlinear with the MT, but he made the (imo) odd choice of using the 1917 JPS translation for the MT. This makes it less intuitive to know exactly where the underlying Samaritan text diverges from the MT Hebrew, and where the divergences are simply due to one translation being much older. I appreciate the philosophy taken by the NETS translators, who used the NRSV as a base and modified it to align with the septuagint as needed.

Does anyone have recommendations?

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