[1] The Tulida reached its final form in a manuscript copied by Jacob ben Harun in 1859 (1276 AH) with a parallel Arabic translation.
Its full title is Ha-Tolida ʿasher mitʿakeh ben ha-Shemarim, which translates to "The Book of Genealogies that the Samaritans have transcribed".
[2][3] The Tolidah was brought to the attention of western scholarship by Adolf Neubauer, who purchased the manuscript of Jacob ben Harun, now MS or.
In 1954, John Bowman, claiming to have seen a manuscript with "the appearance of antiquity" that he believed to be the original Tolidah, published a new edition.
The latest critical edition, based on the more manuscripts than all previous and including an English translation and commentary, is that of Moshe Florentin, published in 1999.
[2] The continuation mentions the devastation wrought on the Samaritan community at Nablus by a major raid in the mid-13th century AD.