Moshe Florentin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Hebrew Language and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University, and a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. His previous books dealing with the study of the Samaritans are The Tulida (Yad Yizhak Ben-Zvi, 1999), Late Samaritan Hebrew (Brill, 2005), The Pentateuch – The Samaritan Version (with Moshe Florentin, 2010, TAU University Press), and Samaritan Elegies (The Bilik Institution, 2012).