The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect; their history, theology, and literature . on the margin of the two sides there was an engraved writ-ing, very clear indeed. And they showed the writing to theKuthim, and they read it at once, for it was the Hebrewwriting which was left to the Kuthim, as it is said in San-hedrin. And they read on the one side, The shekel ofshekels, and on the other, Jerusalem the holy. ^^ How the change of script was effected in the JewishChurch is explained in the locus classicus of the BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin, 21b: Mar Zutra (early in VthCent.)—according to others
The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect; their history, theology, and literature . on the margin of the two sides there was an engraved writ-ing, very clear indeed. And they showed the writing to theKuthim, and they read it at once, for it was the Hebrewwriting which was left to the Kuthim, as it is said in San-hedrin. And they read on the one side, The shekel ofshekels, and on the other, Jerusalem the holy. ^^ How the change of script was effected in the JewishChurch is explained in the locus classicus of the BabylonianTalmud, Sanhedrin, 21b: Mar Zutra (early in VthCent.)—according to others Mar Ukba (middle of UldCent),— said: At first the law was given to Israel in He-brew script and in the holy tongue. It was again given tothem in the days of Ezra in the Assyrian ( Syrian) 23 In his notes, p. 8, to Almkvist, Ein samaritanischer Brief. 24 Quoted by Lidzbarski, op. cit. 92, in the Hebrew text from deRossi, Meor Enaim (Wihia, 1866), p. 450. The coin was a shekel ofthe first Jewish revoh. The interpretation of the obverse is wrong;it reads, shekel of Plate 9 ( Sobernheim, Abb. ir.) And he will bless thy food and thy water and will remove dis-ease from thy midst. (Ex. 23, 25.) mrf:m^/7r/o^f^/TT^^^^/n\
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