"... Nowhere else in Scripture is God depicted as a “man” ... The reading in the Samaritan Pentateuch is best explained as an attempt to soften this image with the literarily synonymous but theologically more acceptable “hero” of war, which could be understood as a description of YHWH’s actions as opposed to the deity’s person. This variant is not a reflection of the views of the Samaritan community per se, and was likely part of the Pre-Samaritan layer of that text, which was created by Jews in the Second Temple period (which is why texts of this sort were found in Qumran). It is thus possible that the author of Psalm 24 was aware of the reading now included in the SP’s text, and was alluding to it in his description of YHWH ..."