The ''Memar Marqah'', or ''The teaching of Marqah'', is a Samaritan

homiletic In religious studies, homiletics ( grc, ὁμιλητικός ''homilētikós'', from ''homilos'', "assembled crowd, throng") is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific art of public preaching. One who practices o ...

tractate A tractate is a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject; the word derives from the Latin ''tractatus'', meaning treatise. One example of its use is in citing a section of the Talmud, when the term ''masekhet'' () is used i ...

.A. D. A. Moses Matthew's Transfiguration Story and Jewish-Christian Controversy 1850755760- 1996 "His departure is very much like an assumption or ascension story influenced by Sinai motifs and Sinai type cataclysmic happenings and language: 'All the powers descended on to Mount Nebo...the Glory drew near to him and embraced him' (Memar Marqah 5.3, p. 203). According to Memar Marqah 5.4, p. 207 'The shining light which abode on his face is with him in his tomb'. These examples show that the Moses-transfiguration theme plays an important role in Samaritan theology." It was written in

Samaritan Aramaic Samaritan Aramaic, or Samaritan, was the dialect of Aramaic used by the Samaritans in their sacred and scholarly literature. This should not be confused with the Samaritan Hebrew language of the Scriptures. Samaritan Aramaic ceased to be a ...

by the Samaritan scholar, philosopher and poet, Marqah in the 4th century AD. The work is a collection of midrashic compositions on several parts of the

Pentateuch The Torah (; hbo, ''Tōrā'', "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In that sense, Torah means the sa ...

, expanding its presentation of events and precepts with the purpose of examining its theological, didactic, and philosophical teachings.

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