“Mount Gerizim,
All the Days of Our Lives”
July/August
2016
Vol. XV - No 6
In This Issue ·
Samaritan Medal ·
Fragment 4 sale ·
Births & Marriage ·
Exhibition ·
Priest Yosef ·
Samaritan Priest ·
Calendar ·
Astrologers ·
Russian article ·
Brazil Synagogues ·
Benny Lecture ·
Green Mosque ·
Visitors ·
9th Congress ·
Samaritan Binding ·
Samaritan photos ·
Japanese article ·
Forth Coming books ·
Biblio ·
Interesting
On January 1, 2015, the Samaritan Community numbered 777.
Future Events
It has been 3655 years since the entrance into
the Holy Land
(Samaritan’s typical calendar)
2016
Festival of the Seventh Month- Saturday Oct. 1, 2016
Day of Atonement- Monday, Oct. 10, 2016
Festival of Sukkot, Third Pilgrimage- Saturday Oct. 15, 2016
Festival of the Eight Day- Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016
The Eighth Month 3655 - Sunday Evening, October 30, 2016
The Ninth Month 3655 - Tuesday Evening, November 29, 2016
The Tenth Month 3655- Wednesday Evening, December 28, 2016
2017
The Eleventh Month 3655 - Friday Evening, January 27, 2017
The Twelfth Month 3655 - Sunday Evening, February 26, 2017
The First Month 3655 - Monday Evening, March 27, 2017
Passover Sacrifice - Monday Evening between the sunsets [7:11 PM]
- April 10, 2017
[Calculated by: Priest
Yakkiir ['Aziz] b. High Priest Jacob b. 'Azzi – Kiriat Luza, Mount Gerizim]
~~~~~~~~~~~
Reinhard
Pummer awarded Samaritan Medal
At the opening ceremony of the 9th
International Congress of Samaritan Studies in Prague on July 31, emeritus Professor of the University of Ottawa, Reinhard Pummer was awarded the 2016
Samaritan Medal for Academic Achievement.
(Photo right: Professor Reinhard Pummer
(right) and his wife Lucille (right)
with Samaritan Benyamim Tsedaka.)
The University of Ottawa website profile gives a great biography; ‘Reinhard Pummer has published on the formative period of Samaritanism, but also on the present day Samaritans. Among his publications are a pictorial documentation of ancient and modern Samaritan beliefs and practices in the series ‘Iconography of Religions,’ a reference work on Samaritans and Samaritan studies, an edition of Samaritan marriage contracts, a bibliography of the Samaritans, and a monograph on the Samaritans in early Christian writings.’
Congratulations Professor, we all have enjoyed your work for many years and are always looking forward to your next project.
(Photo right: Professor Reinhard Pummer with the Samaritan Medal awarded by the Samaritan Medal Foundation)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Samaritan Manuscript Fragment is For Sale
You
can learn more about the fragment in the last issue
of the Samaritan Update.
Should
you be interested or know someone that might be interested in purchasing the
book/fragment, please contact Thomas Milner at thomasmilner7@gmail.com.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Baby Girl,
Beth Was Born to Yif'at and Yaaqob b. Priest Yefet b. Ab-Hisda on
Thursday, 28.7.2016. (Photo left)
Baby Girl, was
born to Vered and Gilad Tsdaka on
29. 8. 2016.
Congratulations!!!! (Photo right)
A New Young Israelite-Samaritan Couple in Holon - 26.7.2016 Leen and
Abraahm b. Baarok b. Abraah Maarheeb. Congratulations!!!! (Photo left)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
First time in the
history of Art: An Exhibition of Paintings on the Israelite Samaritans and
their heritage, by the Artist Miriam Tsedaka was opened in the City Hall of
Holon, Israel
Yesterday was the
opening of the first exhibition of Paintings on the Israelite Samaritans and
their heritage, first time in the history of art, works of Miriam Tsedaka. It
was in the City Hall of our city Holon south to Tel Aviv. The exhibition will
be displayed in Holon till August 31 and then in
number of other cities of Israel planned to be displayed in the near future
outside Israel overseas.
The opening was so
beautiful as the artist herself that blessed by the priest of Holon Asaf b.
Tabia. The City Hall Heads expressed their happiness to host such an exhibition
and their respect to the Israelite Samaritan People.
Pictures:
- The Priest Asaf b.
Tabia with the Artist Miriam and the Director General of the City Holl. Mrs.
Hannah Hertzman
Benyamim Tsedaka.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Read
the full article: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/story_of_the_priest_yosef.pdf
Read
the full article: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/story_of_priest_who_discovered.pdf
Read
the full article: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/thecalendarcalculation.pdf
Read
the full article: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/threeastrologers.pdf
~~~~~~~~~~~
An Israelite
Samaritan Synagogue in the Amazon - the First in Brazil
My friend Yiftah [Carlos]
Ban Abraahm Lima sent me last night a picture of Israelite-Samaritan synagogue
first in Brazil with a community of about 200 families, the same size of our
Israelite Samaritan community in Israel. The direction of the synagogue is
North-East towards Mount Gerizim.
The community situated in
the State of Amazonas, one of the 29 Brazilian states, seven hours earlier to
the clock in Israel.
They greet each other,
"Baarok Shehmaa", On Friday and Saturday evening: "Shabbikon
Taaben Yesi" and "Ashshehlam 'Alikimma" on Saturday night. They
keep Holidays and Shabbat and keep reading the weekly Torah portion; they keep
the laws purity and impurity, happy and hospitable to one another, and wish
peace to all members of our community. Their website has many pictures of
community life in our country.
They believe in Shehmaa,
Moses, the holy Torah and Aargaareezem Bit El=House of El.
There is another
8-Samaritan Israelite communities in Brazil smaller or larger, and all of them
are in advanced process of building a synagogue.
Second synagogue soon to
be completed is in the state of Para, Brazil, six hours earlier than in Israel.
Total number of all
members of the Samaritan Israeli communities in Brazil, estimated at between 8,000
to 9,000 individuals. The author maintains weekly contact with all nine
presidents of communities.
Baarok Shehmaa
Believe it or not, there are
9 communities, like 25% of them as I have been told are formerly Jews-Karaites
and Rabbinical and the rest formerly Christians. And this is only in Brazil.
There are smaller communities in USA, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Russia, India and
Indonesia. I have met some of their leaders and they have planned a meeting of
all the presidents in November in Sao Paulo. This next trip will be my third
visit since 2014. I pray the economic crisis in Brazil will be solved soon so
they would all of them come to the meeting.
The people that I met if
they consider Israeli Samaritans and maintain their identity under my advice as
chief advisor of all communities. We, the original Israelite Samaritans, do not
recognize the conversion process, but joining the circumcision and keeping the
commandments of the true version of the Torah.
Benyamim Tsedaka.
“Green Mosque" in Nablus, home to
the third meeting of religions
An Arabic article on three religions around Nablus.
http://www.alquds.com/articles/1471696696852294600/
~~~~~~~~~~~
A group of German
visitors visited the Samaritan museum the morning of August 23, 2016
The
group attended the lectures that was given by priest Husney the manager of the
museum, and they asked many questions about the history and the religion and
culture of the Samaritans specially about Samaritan's woman role in the
community.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE FINAL UPDATE OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS OF SAMARITAN STUDIES
PRAGUE, CHARLES UNIVERSITY
JULY 31 - AUGUST 5, 2016
President:
Magnar Kartveit
Vice-president: Stefan Schorch
Secretary: Arnaud Sérandour
Treasurer: Ursula Schattner-Rieser
9th Congress of the Société d’études samaritaines
Protestant
Theological Faculty, Charles University in Prague,
Černá 9, P.O.Box 529, CZ‐115
55, Praha 1, Czech Republic
Organization: doc. Jan Dušek,
Ph.D., Prague (dusek@etf.cuni.cz)
Conference Program
Each speaker has 35 minutes for paper and discussion
Sunday, July 31
17:00
Opening of the conference bureau for registration
18:00 Opening of the conference
Samaritan Medal Foundation award for R. Pummer
19:00 Reception
Monday, August 1
9:00 – 9:35
M. Kartveit, Possible anti‐Samaritan
polemics in 2 Kings 17
9:35 – 10:10 G.
Knoppers, Context and Content: The Samaritan Tenth Commandment
10:10 – 10:45 J.
Bourgel, The destruction of the Samaritan Temple by John Hyrcanus: a
Reconsideration
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:35 B. Hensel, The Chroniclers Concept of Polemics against the
Samaritan YHWH‐
worshippers: a Fresh Attempt
11:35 – 12:10 O.
Abadi, On the Appearance of the Samaritan Script
Lunch
15:00 – 15:35 N.
Mizrahi, Peculiar Orthography in the Qumran Phylacteries in the Light of
Samaritan
Hebrew
15:35 – 16:10 M. Whitters, The Samaritans in Rome and in Paul’s Thinking
16:10 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:05 J. T. Mace, The Parable of the Ḥesedic Samaritan (Luke
10:29‐37): Jesus’s Affirmative
Declaration in the Debate over Samaritan Israelism
17:05 – 17:40 B. Tsedaka, The Central State of Moses in the Israelite‐Samaritan Literature
over the
Ages
Tuesday, August 2
9:00 – 9:35
L. Barkan, The Language of the Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch
9:35 – 10:10 G. Schwarb, Muʿtazilī patterns of argument in Abū l‐Ḥasan al‐Ṣūrī’s “Treatise on the
qibla” and its
Qaraite refutation
10:10 – 10:45 D. Boušek, The Story of Prophet Muḥammad’s Encounter with a
Jew, a Christian and
a Samaritan: the Version from Abū al‐Fatḥ’s
Kitāb al‐Tārīkh and Its Context
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:35 S.
Schorch, An Unknown and Unique Samaritan Arabic Introductory Prayer by Abu
l‐Ḥasan aṣ‐Ṣuri
11:35 – 12:10 G.
Wedel, Polemics in Abū
l‐Ḥasan al‐Ṣūrī’s “Kitāb al‐ṭabbākh” (11th century, CE)
Lunch
15:00 – 15:35 J.
Droeber, Whose Neighbour? How Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Samaritans Live
Together in Nablus
15:35 – 16:10 M.
Schreiber, Cousins and Strangers: Marital Preferences among the Contemporary
Samaritans
16:10 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:05 A. Mashiach – I. Hershkowitz, Contemporary Halakhic Discourse on
Samaritans
17:05 – 17:40 D. Hamidović, Le projet de traduction française du
Pentateuque samaritain
Wednesday, August 3
Morning:
excursion
Lunch
Afternoon: General Assembly of the Société d’études samaritaines
Thursday, August 4
9:00 – 9:35
E. Baruch, The Samaritans during the Byzantine Period: Material Culture and
Identity
9:35 – 10:10 R. Pummer, How to Tell a Samaritan Synagogue from a Jewish
Synagogue
10:10 – 10:25 Break
10:25 – 11:00 A. Lehnardt, If a Cuthean Comes and Forces You into Military
Service (Pesiqta de‐Rav
Kahana, Ha‐Hodesh,
piska 5) – Anti‐Samaritan Polemics in
a Homiletic Midrash
11:00 – 11:35 A.
Tal, Nimrod, “a Man
of Might” – How Many of Them?
Lunch
15:00 – 15:35 A. Tarshina, The Formation of Hyperheavy Syllables in Samaritan
Aramaic
15:35 – 16:10 M. Florentin, Gemination in Samaritan Hebrew – Grammar,
Interpretation and
Version
16:10 – 16:25 Break
16:25 – 17:00 R. Bardenstein, Historical Bindings of the Warren‐Chamberlain Samaritan
Collection
Friday, August 5
9:00 – 9:35
G. Akhiezer, Between Samaritans and Karaites: the Visit of Abraham Firkovich in
Sichem and his Perception of Samaritanism
9:35 – 10:10 V. Morabito, Les Samaritains de Sicile et Samaritains en Sicile
10:10 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:05 K. Keim, The Samaritan Correspondence of Dr Moses Gaster
11:05 – 11:40 S. Ford, The Lives of Baba Rabbah: Composition and Communional
Identity in the
Samaritan Chronographic Tradition
11:40 – 12:00 Conclusion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JULY 6,
2016 / CHESTERBEATTYCONSERVATION
In this post I will look at some of the many questions
raised during the conservation and re-binding of the large 14th century
Samaritan Pentateuch I worked on as part of the recent project
to conserve the Hebrew manuscript collection.
As I began work on this Pentateuch, it became apparent that the current scholarly understanding of
Samaritan manuscript and binding production consists of just a few texts. This
is probably due to the limited amount of Samaritan manuscript material that
survives, and the lack of original binding evidence this material
preserves. Even so, the existing literature gives the conservator a valuable
starting point in understanding medieval Samaritan book production.
Read the entire article at their Chester Beatty Conservation website
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nir Sasony, posts a
Samaritan ketubah written by his Grandfather in 1925 on Facebook
~~~~~~~~
Some wonderful Samaritan Photos
from Kurt Wyss (Bael, Switzerland) of the Passover Sacrifice. I cannot give a
year from these photos.
See them at http://www.tageswoche.ch/de/2013_13/basel/525854/
~~~~~~~~~~~
Japanese Researcher Visits the
Samaritan Museum
Miss Maho, a Japanese
researcher visited the Samaritan museum on July 18, 2016 along with her
co-workers. Miss Maho researched the Samaritan community and published her
results in a Japanese book.
During her visit to the
museum she presented her book to priest Husney, the manager of the museum and
expressed her gratitude for the help she received from the priest in her
research. (Source: Samaritan Museum Facebook)
David Bivin Photos from the 1960s
http://webmail.cdts.org.tw/bibleplaces/Bivin_Views_1960s/zHtml/samaria.htm
~~~~~~~
Forth Coming
Samaritan Languages, Texts, and Traditions: History, Texts, and
Traditions (Studia Samaritana)
by Stefan Schorch
(Author, Editor)
Series: Studia Samaritana
(Book 8)
Hardcover: 330 pages
Publisher: Walter De
Gruyter Inc (October 31, 2016)
Language: English
For Sale on Ebay
The Israelite Journey through the Wilderness in the
Sinai Peninsula
By Samaritan Priest Husney
Wasef
This is an English
translation of Husney’s earlier work published three years ago, of which has
been disputed by other Samaritans as not being accurate. Nevertheless it may be
interesting.
~~~~~~~~
Schwab, Moise
Il y a, maintenant au
Caire environ sept cents familles juives, dont cinquante sont samaritaines,
nommées aflssi culhéennes. cent cinquante karaîtes, et tout le reste
rabbanites. tes Samaritains n'ont que le Pentateuque, et ils ne se servent pas,
pour l'Écriture sainte, de nos caractères. C'est, selon l'avis de Maïmenide,
l'écriture hébraïque dont se servait Israël en principe, avant l'exil en
Assyrie {{); maisleur langue est la même que la nôtre. Partout dans la Torâ,
pour lé nom de l'Éternel f.T), ils écrivent Aschima. Us étaient en opprobre aux
Juifs, parce qu'ils sacrifiaient et qu'ils encensaient sur le mont Garizim.
Plusieurs d'entre eux ont voyagé avec nous et ont quitté le Caire pour sacrifier
l'agneau pascal sur le mont où ils ont un petit temple. Ils n'observent le
snbbatb que depuis le vendredi à midi jusqu'au samedi à midi. Il n'en existe
plus que fort peu; car il paraît à peine en exister encore cinquante familles
en tout l'univers (et de nos jours, il n'y a plus guère que trente familles à
Nablous). . ,., . .
Google English
Translation
There, now in Cairo about
seven hundred Jewish families, which are fifty Samaritan, named aflssi
culhéennes. Karaites hundred and fifty, and everything Rabbinites. your
Samaritans have only the Pentateuch, and they do not use, for the Holy
Scriptures, our characters. That is, in the opinion of Maïmenide, Hebrew
writing which was using Israel in principle, before the exile to Assyria {{);
maisleur language is the same as ours. Throughout the Torah, for lé f.T name of
the Lord), they write Ashima. They were a reproach to Jews, because they
sacrificed and offering incense on Mount Gerizim. Many of them have traveled
with us and left Cairo for sacrificing the Passover lamb on the Mount where
they have a small temple. They observe that sabbath since Friday noon until
Saturday noon. There are over very little; for it seems hardly yet exist fifty
families in the universe (and these days, there is little more than thirty
families in Nablus).
Biblio
Daunou, Pierre Claude François
Notices et extraits des
manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi : et autres bibliothèques
[...], faisant suite aux….. Institut de France: Paris : Imprimerie royale :
[puis] Impr. impériale : [puis] Impr. nationale 1832.’ In Journal des savants. Fevrier 1833 Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale 108-117
Drival,
M.L’Abbe E. van
Grammaire comparée des
langues sémitiques et de l'égyptien Paris:
Maisonneuve et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs, 1879, 196-200
Duval, Rubens
Pentatenchus samaritanus. Ad fidem librorum
manuscriptorum apud Nablusianos repertorum edidit et varies lectiones
asscriptsit H. Petermann, Fasciculus IV, Numeri, ex recensione Caroli Voller.
Berlin, Moeser, 1885, in-8, p. 349-465. In Revue Critique d’Histoite
et de Litterature, No. 29, 19 juillet, 1886, 41-44 Reviewer
Glaire, Jean-Baptiste
Introduction historique et critique aux livres de l'ancien et du nouveau testament. Tome Premier, Paris, Chez Méquignon Junior, 1839
Neubaur, M.A.
‘Sects Among the Jews.’ Papers Read Before the
Jews College Literary Society During the Session 1886-7, London: Office of the Jewish Chronicle,
1887, 1-12
Reinaud, Joseph Toussaint
Notice historique et littéraire sur m.
le baron Silvestre de Sacy lue à la séance générale de
la Société asiatique le 25 juin 1838, Paris, Librairie orientale de ve
Dondey-Dupré, 1838.
Schneider, A. M.
Römische und byzantinische Bauten auf dem Garizim
Beiträge zur biblischen Landes- und Altertumskunde
Bd. 68, H. 3 (1951), pp. 211-234
Published by: Deutscher verein zur Erforschung Palästinas
Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/27930427
Page Count: 27 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27930427?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Unknown
Publication
d'un ancien manuscrit contenant un précis curieux des
hérésies qui ont le plus alarmé l'Eglise..: suivie de ;
Réflexions sur les différentes sectes. Paris : toutes
les librairies ecclésiastiques et classiques ; Pont-à-Mousson : A.
Simon, 1840. ‘Samaritains.’ 193-196
Annales de Philosophie Chrétienne, recueil périodique destiné à fair connaître tout ce que les sciences humaines . . renferment de preuves et de découvertes en faveur du christianisme; par une société d'ecclésiastiques, de littérateurs, de naturalistes, de médecins et de jurisconsultes. (sous la direction de M.A. Bonnetty.) Tome XII Paris: Au Bureau des Annals de Philosophie Chrétienne 1836 [This is an Index.]
Interesting:
Biographie de la Moselle, ou Histoire par ordre alphabétique de toutes les personnes nées dans ce département, qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs actions, leurs talens, leurs écrits, leurs vertus, ou leurs crimes Tome 4 Metz Verronnais 1832 By Émile Auguste Nicolas Jules Bégin pp. 256-257
Google translation:
Simon de Sarrebruck:
The editor of the Journal who paints Simon as a good man and a tender piety, appears very gullible. "In Venic e, we show them, he says, in God's house," a big dent in the Giant Goliath, which avoit plus "half a foot long etpesoit twelve books Ramas" (Rama), the one tells them house where the Virgin "was going to school to learn to read} to Gareza (Gaza)," they find some miscreants called Samaritains and hereunto people can not be in the world" alive than a thousand people as he was told, "and ordained our Lord in prayer of Moses. "What God has so ordered the prayer of Moses, nothing supports this assertion, but the truth is that the number of the Samaritans at the time in question, was already very restricted, and that we found some in Gaza. Benjamin of Tudela, who at \ ic century, traveled in the East, is somewhat truthful writer, but his narrative, supported b y others, evidenced by the small number of Samaritans who currently is hardly that about two hundred individuals, mostly in Nablus and some Jaffa. This fact is evidenced by the letters I have received the same Samaritans with whom I reconnected the correspondence they had had formerly with Scaliger, Ludolph and Marshal, but was interrupted for a hundred and nineteen years. (Voy. My History of Sects, Vol. II, p. 3i3 to 336.)
Simon Saarbrücken, after visiting the holy places in Palestine, went to the St. Catherine Monastery Sinai, passed away in Cairo, and came, as we have said, finishing his career with Inicotie. This Journal is hardly a route I can however provide some facts to establish the chain of historical traditions and geographical descriptions.
Author: Ogier d' Anglure; Simon de Sarrebruck (d. 1396 C.E.)
Publisher: Troyes : Noel Moreau, 1621.
~~~~~~~~~
The Samaritan Update is open to any
articles that are relative to Samaritan Studies. Submit your work to The Editor
~~~~~~~
TheSamaritanUpdate.com, is a Bi-Monthly Internet Newsletter
Editor: Larry
Rynearson. Contact: The Editor
© Copyright 2016 All Rights Reserved