Ancient ritual slaughter unites enemies for a day from brisbane times

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/ancient-ritual-slaughter-unites-enemies-for-a-day/2007/05/03/1177788310674.html

Samaritan Passover 2007: the Good, Bad, and Bloody

http://piven.blogspot.com/

Live Animal Sacrifice

http://www.weirdmeat.com/archive/2005_03_01_archive.html

The Samaritans of Nablus

http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=401

Samaritan Passover http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=11732

Face of the Day

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/face_of_the_day_7.html

The Wire - Tuesday May 8, 2007

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The Link to the updated website of the

Samaritan Museum on Mount Gerizim.

http://www.samaritans-mu.com/

SIR ROBERT ANDERSON
Secret Service Theologian
BIOGRAPHY, CHAPTER X
AUTHOR, TEACHER AND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

An example was the "assured result" that the Pentateuch was a Jewish work of a comparatively late date. A really strong case might be shattered by a single fact. And if the critics' case against the Mosaic books were as complete as it was faulty there was one fact which would explode it. That fact was the Samaritan Bible. The C.I.D. story of the man who bought a false moustache was here requisitioned as an illustration, The sacrosanct Scriptures of the Samaritans were limited to the Pentateuch. The standing feud between them and the Jews was a matter of common knowledge. Yet the critics would have us believe that the Scriptures which the Samaritans held in such special reverence were literary forgeries compiled by the Jews after the separation from them of the Ten Tribes, a considerable portion dating from after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity! The critical case, however, rested, on Professor Driver's own showing, only upon "plausible arguments, grounds of probability" and the like.
A diary entry in December 1906 is of interest here : "To Mrs. Finn's to view a wonderful old Samaritan Pentateuch. Her husband was British Consul in Jerusalem, and befriended the Samaritan colony at Shechem." The Rev. A. H. Finn was author of The Unity of the Pentateuch.
The Samaritan evidence is of the utmost weight," said the Bishop of Durham in a personal letter. The reader will perhaps ask, said Sir Robert, what answer the critics give. "The critics give no answer whatever. Indeed they never notice anything urged against 'the assured results' of their inquiries ; presumably because they imagine, as I have said, that if a case can be established for or against anything the question at issue is settled. It is an attitude of mind with which my experience of legal and police work has made me familiar. http://www.newble.co.uk/anderson/biography/biog10.html

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Samaritan Pentateuch

The British Library Board

This is one of the most significant manuscripts in the British Library's collections relating to the Samaritans, a sect of Judaism that split off from the mainstream over 1600 years ago. It reveals the Samaritan descendants of the Israelites who were not exiled by the Assyrians in 722 BCE.

You can see this item on display in the British Library's Sacred Exhibition until 23 September 2007. Find out more

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/samarpent.html

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Rare Judaica

By Shomron

In early May, the Baranovich staff, requested some information concerning a Shomroni (Samaritan) document in which they wanted it described or translated. Benyamim [Benny] Tsedaka was also contacted on the subject. Benny informed me of the article;

'They were not rally interested in the translation of the document as they were interested in its description that I willingly gave them. It is a phrase song written by the poet Abraham b. Marchiv Tsedaka Hatsafari in 1910 that sanf by the few Samaritans in 1910 in the welcome party the Samaritans made for the donor Elkana Warren from Oak Tree Michigan who granted them to help establishing a new Samaritan School in Nablus903 - 1916. This is an original document that written in several copies by the author held in the hands of the singer when they sang it before Warren and his fellows.'

I was unable after requesting information from them on the auction date and location!

http://www.baranovich.org/

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The Samaritans from Israel and Nablus

The Samaritan Singers in the UK

http://www.spiroark.org/samaritans/4522530998

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Archaeology Lecture "Woman of Caesarea: Jews, Pagans, Samaritans and Christians"
Sunday, June 03, 2007 10 a.m.
Archaeology Lecture Series Presents
Dr. Kenneth G. Holum, University of Maryland
Woman of Caesarea: Jews, Pagans, Samaritans and Christians
Sunday, June 3 • 10 a.m.

Scholars have written much on the ancient Mediterranean cities in Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries). Yet in these studies women remain a glaring omission, even though females necessarily made up half or more of a city’s population and there is plentiful evidence for women in these cities. For the women of the Roman city of Caesarea in Eretz-Israel, there are inscriptions, literary texts like the 6th-century historian Procopius of Caesarea and the Jerusalem Talmud, and many bits of material culture such as loom weights, bone pins, cosmetic spoons and mountains of potsherds. Therefore, a portrait of Caesarea women and their lives in the city can easily be constructed. We can separate rich from poor, Christian from Jewish, brides from ascetic women, and women in the labor force from stay-at-home mothers.

This illustrated lecture presented by Dr. Kenneth G. Holum of the University of Maryland will examine women in the city spaces of Caesarea. We will imagine women in Caesarea’s theater and hippodrome, in colonnaded streets and markets, at the public fountains, in the public and private baths, the public latrines, the governor’s palace, private dining rooms, and in the synagogues and churches. From this perspective, it will appear that for the most part, the women of Caesarea performed in thoroughly traditional ways during Late Antiquity, at least until the Muslim conquests of the 7th century.

This free lecture is made possible in part by the Dr. Eric Fischer Memorial Fund for Lectures on Middle Eastern Archaeology. Reservations are not required. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call Lynn Gittleson at 301-348-3840 or e-mail lgittleson@jccgw.org         http://www.jccgw.org/
 

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LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY 2007

 The Archaeology of War in Late Antiquity

To be held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford on the Sat 10<sup>th</sup> to Sun 11th March 2007

THE RELIGION OF 'THE REST': HERESY, APATHY
AND POPULAR PIETY IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 19th-20th March 2005

SATURDAY 19th MARCH

Samaritans and Non-Conforming Jews
15.40-16.20 Shimon Dar (Bar Ilan)
The Samaritans in late antiquity
16.20-17.00 Jodi Magness (Chapel Hill)
Non-conforming Jews in late antiquity

http://www.lateantiquearchaeology.com/