The Samaritans
Author: Pummer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-20
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9004666087
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The Samaritans
Author: Alan David Crown
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 900
ISBN-13: 9783161452376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Samaritans
Author: Etienne Nodet
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-08-10
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0567709698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEtienne Nodet examines the Samaritans and their religion, using Jewish and Christian sources, including rabbinic literature and the latest archaeology. Nodet tells the story of the Samaritans and their religion, showing how they were faithful to a classical form of monotheism. Nodet traces the Samaritan story from more recent to more ancient times. He begins by looking at the importance of the Samaritans in the time of Josephus and the New Testament, taking in the area formed by Galilee, Samaria, and Judea and recognizing how this corresponds approximately to Canaan at the time of Joshua, between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. He then examines the account of 2 Kings 17, which shows the Samaritans as descendants of the settlers sent by the Assyrians, who were initiated to a certain Yahwism after the fall of the kingdom of Israel (North) in 721 BC. Next Nodet looks at the time of the Maccabean crisis, when the Samaritans separated from the Jews, showing how before then there was a peaceful coexistence. Finally, Nodet turns to the Persian period, showing how after the return from exile there was a restoration of the Babylonian-derived form of religion, which the local Israelites (including the Samaritans) opposed. Nodet contends that, as such, the Samaritan religion, with its succession of high priests up to the present day, and is of 'immemorial permanence', linking to the earliest worship of YHWH in Israel.
The Samaritans
Author: Steven Fine
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9004466916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Samaritans: A Biblical People celebrates the culture of the Israelite Samaritans from biblical times to our own day. This exquisite volume explores ways that Samaritans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have interacted, shunned and interpreted one another across western civilization.
The Samaritans
Author: Moses Gaster
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Samaritans in Flavius Josephus
Author: Reinhard Pummer
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9783161501067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first-century C.E. Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is our main source of information for the early history of the Samaritans, a community closely related to Judaism whose development as an independent religion is commonly dated in the Hellenistic-Roman period. Josephus' two main works, Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities, contain a number of passages that purport to describe the origin, character and actions of the Samaritans. In composing his histories, Josephus drew on different sources, some identifiable others unknown to us. Contemporary Josephus research has shown that he did so not as a mere compiler but as a creative writer who selected and quoted his sources carefully and deliberately and employed them to express his personal views. Rather than trying to isolate and identify Josephus' authorities and to determine the meaning these texts had in their original setting, Reinhard Pummer examines what Josephus himself intended to convey to his audience when he depicted the Samaritans in the way he did. He attempts to combine composition criticism and historical research and argues that the differences in Josephus' portrayal of the Samaritans in War on the one hand and in Antiquities on the other are due to the different aims the historian pursued in the two works.
The Origin of the Samaritans
Author: Magnar Kartveit
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-10-31
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9047440544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Bible readers will think that chapter 17 of the second book of Kings refers to the origin of the Samaritans. This understanding of the chapter has its earliest attestation in the works of Josephus. The present book evaluates the methods often used for finding the origin of the Samaritans, makes an assessment of well known and new material, and ventures into some uncharted territory. It is suggested that the moment of birth of the Samaritans was the construction of the temple on Mount Gerizim. This happened in the first part of the fourth century b.c.e. in accordance with the original commandment of Moses in Deut 27:4.
The Samaritans and Early Judaism
Author: Ingrid Hjelm
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1841270725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an examination of various sources mentioning Samaritans or questions that can be related to a possible Samaritan-Judaean conflict, this book offers a new understanding both of Samaritanism and Judaism in their formation. The literature under examination dates from the Persian period to well into the Roman period and stems from Jewish, Christian, Hellenistic and Samaritan circles. This study concentrates on the anachronisms of the writers as well as those of our readings of the texts.
The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans
Author: Magnar Kartveit
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-07-09
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 3110581418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscoveries on Mount Gerizim and in Qumran demonstrate that the final editing of the Hebrew Bible coincides with the emergence of the Samaritans as one of the different types of Judaisms from the last centuries BCE. This book discusses this new scholarly situation. Scholars working with the Bible, especially the Pentateuch, and experts on the Samaritans approach the topic from the vantage point of their respective fields of expertise. Earlier, scholars who worked with Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies mostly could leave the Samaritan material to experts in that area of research, and scholars studying the Samaritan material needed only sporadically to engage in Biblical studies. This is no longer the case: the pre-Samaritan texts from Qumran and the results from the excavations on Mount Gerizim have created an area of study common to the previously separated fields of research. Scholars coming from different directions meet in this new area, and realize that they work on the same questions and with much common material.This volume presents the current state of scholarship in this area and the effects these recent discoveries have for an understanding of this important epoch in the development of the Bible.
The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives
Author: Jan Dusek
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 3110616270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume contributes to the knowledge of the Samaritan history, culture and linguistics. Specialists of various fields of research bring a new look on the topics related to the Samaritans and the Hebrew and Arabic written sources, to the Samaritan history in the Roman-Byzantine period as well as to the contemporary issues of the Samaritan community.
