544th OEDINAEY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN THE ROOMS OF THE INSTITUTE, ON MONDAY, 

 APRIL 21sT, 1913, AT 4.30 p.m. 



E. J. Sewell, Esq. (Member of Council), Presided. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and signed, and the 

 Secretary announced the election of Mr. Williamson Laniplough as a 

 Member. 



The Chairman then called upon the Rev. J. Iverach Munro, M.A., 

 to read his paper. 



THE SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH AND PHILOLO- 

 GICAL QUESTIONS CONNECTED THEREWITH 

 By the Rev. J. Iverach Munro, M.A. 



AVERY valuable paper on " The Samaritan Pentateuch " was 

 read before the members of the Victoria Institute by the 

 Rev. Canon Garratt, M.A., on Monday, March 21st, 1904, which I 

 shall presume to be known to the members here present. 



My task is thus much simplified, as I am set at liberty to 

 use the time at my disposal in showing from facts embedded in 

 the Samaritan Pentateuch itself and in its Samaritan transla- 

 tion, which are not denied by scholars, that the Samaritan 

 Pentateuch was received by the Samaritan Colonists in or 

 about the time of Hezekiah. In short, the historical situation 

 depicted in ii Kings xvii, 24-41, gives the key to almost all 

 the peculiarities of the Samaritan Pentateuch and its Samaritan 

 translation, fitting into these peculiarities so minutely as to leave 

 no shadow of a doubt in my mind that it was then received ; 

 and by a process of inductive and deductive reasoning from 

 facts in it and in the Hebrew Pentateuch in the Massoretic 

 text, along with those in the Septuagint translation, that they 

 lead us right back to the time of Moses for the first reception 

 of the Pentateuch, practically, making due allowance for 

 marginal glosses, etc., as we now have it. 



The evidence is cumulative. First comes the character in 



