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Morin, Jean (1591–1650)| French theologian and writer. He edited the Paris Polyglot (1645), which includes the Samaritan Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible) and the Targum (ancient Aramaic version of the Old Testament). He claimed the superiority of the Samaritan over the Hebrew version. |
| He also wrote a Samaritan grammar and Exercitationes on the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible. |
| He was born in Blois and became a Protestant clergyman in Leyden, the Netherlands. After converting to Catholicism he became a priest of the Oratory at Paris in 1618. |
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