A YOUNG PRIEST WRITING A SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH 



All the Samaritan Pentateuchs and prayer books, as well as the hooks used by the school 

 children, are hand-written. Parchment was used up to two centuries ago; since then paper 

 has come into vogue. Aside from the fact that the poverty of the modern Samaritan com- 

 mends the use of paper, which is much cheaper, the orthodox scholar will not write on 

 leather unless the hide from which it is prepared has been taken from an animal slaughtered 

 by a priest. 



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