The singer's manuscript in abbreviating Al-Tawtea's BookA Grammar of the Samaritan Language (A study and Investigation)

Abstract

The singer's book Al-Muġniya fī iḫtiṣār at-tawṭi’a,is by Eleazar Ben Pinḥas b. Yūsuf, different in its arrangement and subject than the book of Tawtea in the grammar of Hebrew and Samaritan languages by Abu Ishaq Ibrahim B. farag As-samiri, whereas the author of the singer's book had added some corrections that he suggested to the Book of Al-Tawtea. We are trying in this paper to present a study and investigate the manuscript of the book of Tawtea that is called " the singer inabbreviating the Tawtea" that had written as texts which is known in Semitic linguistics (Arabic- Samaritan), that had narrated in both languages, The Hebrew and the Samaritan. These literal outputs that had uttered at the middles ages ( Bilingual ) written by the Samaritan sect at the field of language, literature, Jurisprudence, Mosaic Act regarding the Samaritan doctrine. The purpose of this paper is to make a Universal investigation and comparison between the two copies of the singer's book in abbreviating Al-Tawtea by the Priest author Al-Azer Bin Fanhass, we have obtained the first copy from University of Lidan's library in Holland, and the second copy from Saint Petersburg which indicates the importance of this book in Hebrew and Samaritan language, in addition to a linguistic study.