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The Next Passover Sacrifice April 11, 2006
Samaritan Studies and Related Conferences: Research in Judah and Samaria University of Ariel on June 2, 2005 We have not heard on this from any scholars
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In 1654 the Zürich printer
J. J. Bodmer published a broadside entitled
Elementale Quadrilingue, supposedly a guide to reading Samaritan,
Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac, by the famous Johann Heinrich Hottinger;
but really, not so much a work of philology as a specimen of types
newly made by the punch-cutter Balthasar Köblin who was then working
for him. This type-specimen survives in a perhaps unique copy in
Houghton Library, unrecorded until lately. The edition includes a
same-size facsimile, with commentary devoted to Hottinger and to the
three new types (Arabic, Syriac, and Samaritan). The commentary is
hand-set in Monotype Walbaum and various founders' types in the
relevant languages from the Jericho Press collection. The commentary
on the Samaritan type is by Alan D. Crown. ``````````````````````````````````````````` Book Review
By Shomron A Bibliography of the Samaritans: Revised, Expanded And Annotated, the third edition, is the ultimate research tool on the Samaritan-Israelites today. No book thus far contains so much information on where to find information. The two professors Alan Crown and Reinhard Pummer worked hard on this exceptional task of compilations of all the Samaritan related materials known to exist of past. If one picks a certain subject relating to the Samaritan-Israelites, you will find all the articles written, with author and publication and date. The notes given to an article is the most helpful and the a brilliant key for faster research on the subject. New to this book is the Electronic Resources, which does by the way mentions both of our websites. The last book, the second edition from 1984, A Bibliography of the Samaritans, by Alan Crown, will now sit on our shelves next to this fine advanced third edition. Most likely this will be the Scholars bible on Samaritan research for the next ten or so years to come. Thank you Professors! The entire book is a great asset for all of us!!!!
A Bibliography of the Samaritans: Revised, Expanded And Annotated by Alan David Crown and Reinhard Pummer ISBN: 081085659X Scarecrow Press; 3rd edition (August 30, 2005)
Booklet Surfaces By Shomron
``````````````````````````````````````````` From The Editor Recently I have been rereading Samaritan related materials and found myself back in The Open Book, The Samaritan Messiah by William E. Barton, Sept, 1907. There was a section that I had forgotten and it goes like this; 'I have what may possibly be a fragment of that old codex. I obtained it from a son of the High Priest as a premium with a larger purchase. No Samaritan, I hope, has yet reached a depth of depravity which would lead him to mutilate that book for money, but in many places bits have been worn out of it, and this is such a scrap, five and one half by three and one half inches from the lowest margin of the manuscript, and containing Genesis xxvi, 20-22. The letters are small and irregular; it has been re-inked at least twice in places; the lines are not ruled; the parchment is yellow and brittle and wrinkled; and above all, the ink, which is so faded and over-written that it would be difficult to tell from the front of the leather what was the original color, has stained the back of the parchment a distant purple.' The author was referring that this was a piece of parchment from the Abisha Scroll the oldest Torah scroll among the Samaritans today. I was wondering what had happened to this piece of Barton history. The piece is in the William E. Barton Collection of Samaritan Materials at the Boston University School of Theology Library. Accordingly the chapter was Genesis 36 and not 26 as the article had mentioned. You can read the information at the following website under Hebrew or Samaritan texts item 4. They seem to have examined the piece well as the information shows but I wonder with all the new advances that have been made if future studies will change the dating, or they just might confirm what we already know. William E. Barton Collection of Samaritan Materials at the Boston University School of Theology Library. http://www.bu.edu/sth/archives/sth/barton1.html#hebrew---- I would also like to add that this book below is NOT a Samaritan-Israelite book nor has it been translated from any Samaritan works but someone's fabrication!!!!!!!! THE SEVENTH BOOK OF MOSES, {Title Page I}BIBLIA, ARCANA MAGICA ALEXANDER, ACCORDING TO THE Tradition of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, BESIDES MAGICAL LAWS. THE MAGICAL KABALA, OF THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES, By S. T. N. Translated for the first time from the Cuthan-Samaritan Language into English. NOT A SAMARITAN-ISRAELITE BOOK!!!!! ``````````````````````````````````````````` Helsinki Proceedings Book Update No date has been given yet on the current status of the publication of the compilations of the Helsinki Conference as of the date of this publication! ```````````````````````````````````````````
Web Links
Newly Discovered and Unpublished Arabic Versions of the Samaritan Pentateuch from the National Library of Russia. Dr Prof. Haroutun Jamgotchian http://www.crda-france.org/0ab/2_samaritans.htm
Sodium-lithium countertransport in Israeli Samaritans.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2401618&dopt=Citation
The mythic past: biblical archaeology and the myth of Israel TL Thompson http://print.google.com/print?id=QzOJ9nMlUJcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA8&sig=I0d-IhwfTIPirr5fp2jFMzDCbLY
Mitochondrial DNA Analysis
in a 5300-year-old Specimen from Israel Laboratory of Biological Anthropology and Ancient DNA, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/(h1lvk3ewurb504ajpy3ptq3a)/app/home/main.asp
Kadosh Samaritan A TrueType Font for Windows and Macintosh Shawn Eyer, M.A. http://www.orindalodge.org/fonts/kadosh_samaritan_manual_1_10.pdf
Jewish Military
Forces in the Roman Service http://josephus.yorku.ca/Roth%20Jewish%20Forces.pdf --- A quick search of the ATLA Religion Index database for the last ten years yielded the following results: Samaritan(s) 75 articles 70 essays Mandaean(s) 8 articles 4 essays Unless one has access to the CDROM, which many seminaries and Divinity Schools now have, the only way to search the ATLA Religion Database is by having a librarian do an online search. Depending upon university policy this may be free to faculty and students. The database is on DIALOG and BRS. I am not sure if Wilson still is a vendor for it. http://www.atla.com/atlahome.html ```````````````````````````````````````````
LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2005
Samaritans and Non-Conforming Jews
http://website.lineone.net/~luke_lavan/LAA2001/
Translation Association's 2006 Conference This is
a preliminary announcement and first call for papers for the Israel
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Biblio Additions
Title: The Jewish Festival From Their Beginnings To Our Own Day Author: Hayyim Schauss Publisher: Union of American Hebrew Congregations Copyright Date: 1938 Edition: Sixth Printing Description of the book: The present work on the Jewish holidays represents a unique undertaking in the entire literature on the subject. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first book in which a writer not only gives the historical and ceremonial significance of each of the Jewish festivals and fast days, but also traces their observance and celebration throughout the centuries. For example, we learn the historical and ceremonial significance of Passover, and at the same time of its celebration during the second Temple and in the Middle Ages, and in our own day by the Jews of Morocco, the Samaritans, and so on. ------------------------- Title: An Apology for the Book of Mormon Author: E. Cecil McGavin Publisher: Deseret News Press: Salt Lake City, Utah, Copyright Date: 1930. Table of Contents includes:
------------------------- Title: Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books, Ancient and Modern, Author: Edited by Charles Dudley Warner, Publisher: The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio, Date:1902 ~ Complete in 2 Volumes. |
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The Commandments of the Samaritans on Mount Gerizim
by the Tribe of the Samaritans Priests in Nablus. This small booklet most
likely from around 1920 is a small compilation of other past booklets that
used to make their way into the hands of visiting tourists at the
Samaritan Passover sacrifices. The booklet was published as most others by
Greek Convent Press, Jerusalem. The 20 page booklet contains a brief of
who the Samaritans are and the sacrifice. This is written in English while
a translation into French also incorporates the booklet with a list of
Samaritan list of books acting as a separator. Many of these types of
booklets were sold to help raise money when times were hard for the
Samaritan Israelites.