The Fringe of the East a Journey Through Past And Present Provinces of Turkey
The Fringe of the East a Journey Through Past And Present Provinces of Turkey
Harry Charles Joseph Luke
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The roll is brown and brittle with age, and is encased in a silver cylinder, ' the tomb of the sacred book, ' being wound on two rollers surmounted by silver knobs. The cylinder, on the back of which are engraved symbols of the Tabernacle and its fittings, is in three sections, joined by two sets of hinges, and when open, shows a column of text, when shut, encloses the entire roll. In the middle is a third knob, a dummy, and its total height, inclusive of the knobs, is about two feet six inches.... This is the chief, and, indeed, the only treasure of the Samaritans, who are miserably poor. The High Priest complained that on account of their poverty his people were forgetting the old Samaritan language, and that only the kahens (priests) could now read and write it. Even they do not employ it for any but liturgical purposes. The language of their everyday life is Arabic, and Samaritan has become, like Syriac (except in three villages to be mentioned later), Coptic, and some of the old Slav languages of Russia and the Balkan peninsula, a tongue which only survives in church services, books of prayer, and official docu- ments.
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