Dr. Dylan Johnson
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Because they're scrolls.
They don't last that long.
And it's...
This is what we have.
So most of the critical editions are based on this.
It's a scribal community in and around Tiberias, which is a city in Israel, right by the Sea of Galilee.
These were Jewish rabbis who put this version together.
But we have other versions.
We have something called the Samaritan Pentateuch.
So this is from a group of Jews known as the Samaritans, famous from a biblical parable in the New Testament.
And they have an alternative version of the first five books of the Bible, the Torah or the Pentateuch.
Most notably, they have one of the Ten Commandments.
They have an extra commandment.
What's the extra commandment?
The extra commandment is that God chose his holiest place in Israel at a place called Mount Gerizim, because that's where the Samaritan community is.
So it's not Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is not the center.
It's Mount Gerizim.
So that's a big variation.
That is, yeah.