05-21-2013, 12:52 AM
I agree with you that there is no reason for a samaritan pentateuch translator to alter the script. I think Samaritan Pentateuch translator may have "accidentally misread" Bart Dodeh as father's sister instead of Uncle's Daughter while translating from Aramaic Peshitta Tanakh into Hebrew since Aramaic was the language of Israel from 540 BC to 130 AD. This error can "accidentally" happen due to the fact that Doda is an uncle on father's side just like the scribe made the mistake by accidentally misreading kaparthon as kadarthon.