“Mount Gerizim,
All the Days of Our Lives”
September
/ October
2016
Vol. XVI - No 1
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Orhof Photos ·
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Biblio
On January 1, 2015, the Samaritan Community numbered 777.
2016- The Samaritans number 810 souls
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 28, 2017
The Twelfth Month 3655 - Sunday Evening, February 27, 2017
The First Month 3655 - Monday Evening, March 28, 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]
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JUDAEA. Late
Roman-Byzantine Era, circa 300-830 CE. Marble Decalogue Inscription. A roughly square
slab of white marble, 25 by 22.5 inches (63.5 X 57 cm), and weighing 115 lbs
(52 kg), inscribed with 20 lines of Paleo-Hebrew characters rendered in the
Samaritan dialect, with distinctive letter forms and punctuation common to
Samaritan inscriptions from the fourth through eighth centuries of the Common
Era. Though the middle portion of the inscription is heavily worn (probably by
foot traffic - see the account below), the first and last six lines of the
inscription are clear and distinct, and the middle eight lines legible enough
to be read under oblique lighting.
The 20 lines of writing each line contain between 11 and 15 characters, with
side margins of about 10 centimeters. The letters vary between one and two
centimeters; consistent with the Samaritan writing style, they are separated by
a central dot or colon. Spacing is inconsistent and some of the letters (for
example the letter ה
or Hey)
are rendered in different forms in different lines, giving the impression that
The first two lines form a dedication, the second line of which is underlined
to distinguish the opening from the 18 subsequent lines. These contain the
Mosaic 10 Commandments in the form used by the Samaritans, with an additional
admonition to build a temple on the holy mountain of Gerizim, now located near
the West Bank city of Nablus.
Translated from the Samaritan dialect of Hebrew, the line-by-line inscription
runs as follows:
1. Dedicated in the name of Korach
2. I will call you to remember for goodness forever
3. God spoke
4. all these words
5. saying I am the Lord
5. your God you shall not have
7. for yourself other Gods
8. besides me; you shall not make
9. for yourself a sculptured image or any likeness;
10. for I the Lord
11. your God am an impassioned God;
12. Remember the Sabbath day
13. keep it holy; honor
14. your father and your mother;
15. you shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery;
16. you shall not steal; you shall not bear [false witness] against your
neighbor
17. you shall not covet; you shall erect
18. these stones that
19. I am commanding you today
20. on Mount Gerizim rise up to God
From The Living Torah Museum Collection; acquired from Archeological Center,
Israel, 2003; discovered near Yavneh, now in Israel, then under Ottoman rule on
the Palestinian coast, in 1913.
DISCOVERY AND PROVENANCE: The
details of the Yavneh Stone's discovery are related in an article by Y. Kaplan
and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in the 1947 Journal of the Jewish Palestine Exploration
Society. According to Mr. Kaplan's account, this extraordinary artifact was
rediscovered in 1913, during the excavation of a railroad line along the
southern coastal plain of Palestine. The discovery was made near Yavneh, an
historic city called Jabneel in
the Hebrew Bible. The workmen who found it did not recognize its importance and
either sold or gave it to a local Arab man of some means, who set the stone
into the threshold of a room leading to his inner courtyard, with the
inscription facing up. Due to foot traffic, several words on the center left
side of the tablet were blurred over time.
In 1943, thirty years after his father acquired it, the man's son sold the
stone to Mr. Kaplan, who immediately recognized its importance as an extremely
rare "Samaritan Decalogue," one of five such extant stone
inscriptions dating to before the Muslim invasion of the seventh century CE.
Upon Mr. Kaplan's request, tablet was examined by Yitzhak
Ben-Zvi, a noted scholar of Jewish history, who specialized in studying the
Samaritans. He would later go on to become the second and longest-serving
President of Israel (1952-1963).
The Yavneh Stone remained in Mr. Kaplan's collection until the 1990s, when
it was acquired by the noted Israeli antiquities dealer Robert Deutsch. In
2005, it was obtained by Rabbi Saul Deutsch (no relation), founder and operator
of the Living Torah Museum in Brooklyn, New York. Export of this "National
Treasure" from Israel was approved under a special permit issued by the
Israel Antiquities Authority, on condition that it be placed on public display
"where all can view it and enjoy," a condition that still pertains
(see special conditions pertaining to this lot on title page).
HISTORICAL CONTEXT: In
his 1947 article, Mr. Ben-Zvi made the following observations about the stone:
"You shall not take the name of God your Lord in vain is
missing. This commandment was omitted for an unknown reason.... If you take
"I am the lord" as the first commandment, it would seem there are
indeed 10 commandments listed, including the final one to "raise up"
(a temple) on Mount Gerizim-the holy mountain of the Samaritans.
"According to the information that Mr. Kaplan received, the tablet was
buried east of the central Jama Mosque...The closeness of the location to the
central mosque leads to the assumption that there is a connection between the
tablet and the mosque... Various documents that were kept in the central mosque
inform us that it was established between 1292 and 1373; that is to say, after
the Christian Crusaders. Prior to that, a Latin Christian church built by the
Crusaders stood in its place following their conquest of that location in 1142.
They besieged Yavneh and called it Evlin. Later, on top of the ruins of the church,
the central mosque was built. The local farmers preserved this memory and this
mosque is known until today by the name K'nissah,
which is a special name in Arabic for a Christian church. A Jewish synagogue is
called K'niss in
the masculine form.
"One has to wonder if there could have been an ancient Samaritan
synagogue that once stood in the place of the mosque during the time of the
Samaritans in Yavneh. Perhaps the Crusaders destroyed it and built a Christian
church in its place? This would not be the only time in history
when a Christian church was built on the ruins of a Samaritan synagogue. For
example, remnants of Samaritan inscriptions were found in Siaga on
Mount Nebo amongst the ruins of a Byzantine Christian church. We can deduce
from this that the inscriptions likely belonged to an ancient Samaritan
synagogue that existed there.
"It is important to mention that the last verse in the inscription Kumah
Adonai from the weekly Torah reading Vayehi Binsoa
HaAron ("as the ark is traveling") is also found in the
tablet in the Green Mosque in Shechem. The Green Mosque was built at the end of
the Byzantine era and that verse was corrected in the Muslim era. This
knowledge leads us to believe that the tablet in Yavneh also dates from the
Byzantine era, circa A.D. 300 to 700."
Recent scholarship has confirmed most of Ben-Zvi's observations about the
stone, while adding a few caveats. Joseph Naveh has questioned whether
Samaritan Decalogue inscriptions were bound exclusively to synagogues, or may
have belonged to private homes as well (Oxford, BAR, 1989). Samaritan scholar
John Bowman dates the Yavneh stone to the early Islamic occupation period,
circa 640-830 CE, before the anti-Samaritan pogroms of the Abbasids (see
following article), while other scholars continue to argue for an earlier
Byzantine dating.
Bidding closes Wednesday Nov. 16, 2016
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[From the Editor: I have been thinking about
this inscription, but Benyamim
Tsedaka says it best, ‘what about the
second commandment about "You are not to make use of the name of Shehmaa
in vain". But the biggest mistake is the name Korach: It is forbidden in
Samaritan heritage.’ So who did the inscription? Is it fake or is it from a
different sect of the land?]
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November 15, 2016, 5:00 PM GMT Jerusalem, Israel Live Auction
telephone number
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Description: Samaritan manuscript which includes Siddur and Piyyutim for
holidays. [Nablus, 18th and 19th century]. On leaf [88] the manuscript is
dated: 1707; copied by: Mashallamah ben Ab-Sakuwah Haddanafi, (late 17th -
early 18th century). It is stated on leaf [220] that the manuscript was
completed in 1872 by the High Priest Ya'akov ben Aharon (lived in the years
1840-1916). The manuscript includes prayers for Passover: Zevach Pesach,
Shabbat Moed Pesach, Piyyutim for the seven days of Pesach, and more. Bound at
the end of the manuscript are nine leaves written in Arabic, describing the
pilgrimage to offer a sacrifice in Pesach, holiday of Matzot, and a story about
storms and rains in 1872. [225] leaves, 21 cm. Fair-poor condition. Worming.
Tears and stains. New leather binding.
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Estimate: €500 -
€700
Description: Frank
Horvat (1928) Samaritans, ca. 1954
Stampa vintage alla gelatina sali d'argento. Timbro del fotografo al verso|cm
25 x 30 Vintage gelatin silver print. Photographer's credit stamp on the verso.
cm 25 x 30 Link to Auction
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November 15, 2016 1:30PM GMT London, United
Kingdom
Lot 156: Henry Allon, Notes of Travel in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine,
Manuscript, 1865
Est. Estimate: £10,000 -
£15,000
Description: MANUSCRIPT,
folio (365 x 290mm.), c.200 pages, ILLUSTRATED with c.45 ALBUMEN PRINTS,
including photographs by Francis Bedford, Francis Frith and John Cramb, and
6 CARTES-DE-VISITE of the author and his travel companions, and c.75
prints of views in Egypt, Palestine and Syria; the manuscript details
a pilgrimage tour of Egypt and the Holy Land as part of a group of British
Nonconformist ministers from 7 February to 22 May 1865, providing a detailed
and learned account with extensive historical and theological references,
describing Cairo, climbing the Great Pyramid, an expedition to
Sinai (6 March, "...We resumed our pilgrim-march early in the
morning, guided by the camel-tracks, meeting no human being, and seeing no
indications of civilized life...") including a stay at St Catherine's
Monastery, then on to Jerusalem, describing the principal religious
sites including the Wailing Wall (31 March, "...There were perhaps 50 or
60 present. …………….the Dome of the Rock, and with a very critical account
of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ("...Jerusalem, indeed, is full of
these lying wonders of priests and monks..."), then visiting Bethlehem,
the Jordan Valley (..."The whole appearance ... was of great
sterility, except the green fields around Jericho, some ten miles northward, -
the green strip which marked the course of the Jordan, near to Moab..."), Nablus ("...a long narrow town,
fringed all round with olives, pomegranate, & other trees...") where
the group attended a Samaritan Jewish service ("...the recitative often
broke into a chant, and the harsh staccato jerking effects were most
striking...") and saw the famous Abisha Scroll of the Samaritan Pentateuch,
then on to Nazareth, Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, Damascus,
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Ori Orhof video and pics of the Day of Atonement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9zl_nqNMRQ&feature=youtu.be
146 pics at https://www.flickr.com/photos/oriorhof/sets/72157675059378985
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Samaritan Sukkot
(Image Left) Amit Marhiv posted on his
Facebook page his sukkot. He says in Hebrew, here translated to English, ‘Like this...... starting my happy holiday at home.’
(Image Right) Meital Sasoni
posted on her Facebook page their sukkah, saying, ‘Excitement of holiday!’
Amit
Marhiv posted his sukkah on his Facebook
page
Shoham Sassoni’s sukkah
In
the News
The
Samaritan Sukkot by Asaf Kemer
The ancient community also celebrates
the traditional harvest holiday, but does so with many of their own unique
practices, such as constructing their sukkot inside the home as opposed to out;
'Every family has their own design and it requires a lot of patience to build.'
Continue reading at http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4867134,00.html
Inside the Samaritan high priest’s fruity sukkah, literally by Dov Lieber and Iacopo Luzi
MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank — The Samaritan high priest’s small
home was marked by a modest plaque outside the gate. “Home of the high priest, Abdullah
Wassef Tawfiq,” the Arabic script read. Continue reading at http://www.timesofisrael.com/inside-the-samaritan-high-priests-fruity-sukkah-literally/
Sukkot 2016: How Jews celebrate the
Feast of Tabernacles; check out the photos
by Ankita Mehta
Sukkot,
a Jewish festival, is one of the most important and holiest Jewish observances
of the year. The Jewish festival is also called as Chag Ha-Asif, Festival of
Ingathering or Feast of Tabernacles. The festival starts on the 15th day
of Tishri, the first month of the year in the Jewish calendar.
Continue reading at http://www.ibtimes.co.in/sukkot-2016-how-jewish-celebrate-feast-tabernacles-check-out-photos-700185
In the West Bank, Samaritans provide
a sanctuary by Daniel
Estrin and Mohammed Daraghmeh
In one of the tensest
corners of the West Bank, Israeli settlers and Palestinians live in separate
worlds. But there is a spot on the top of a mountain that connects them both: a
village of Samaritans.
Read more at http://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/article109590227.html
The Same Article is also in the
Washington Post
ואין
זו סתם סוכה:
פירות וסוכות
בעדה השומרונית
הם
נחשבים
לצאצאי ממלכת
ישראל
ומקיימים אורח
חיים בן אלפי
שנים שדומה
ליהדות -
הכירו את השומרונים
שבונים סוכות
יפות מעשרות
פירות, באחד
החגים הכי
צבעוניים שיש
>>> ים המלח - פלא
עולמי: בואו
להצביע
ולהשפיע
העדה
השומרונית
רואה את עצמה
כשארית של
ממלכת ישראל
העתיקה, מנהלת
אורח חיים שדומה
להלכה
היהודית
וייתכן ששפתה
וחלק ממנהגיה
הם עדות לחיי
אבותינו לפני
אלפי שנים -
הכירו את השומרונים - אחת
העדות הקטנות
והמיוחדות
בישראל
ששומרת, לטענתה,
על מסורת עם
ישראל בדיוק
כפי שכתוב בתורה.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4136590,00.html
Фото:
Мария
Кашевник. NEWSru.co.il
В
этом году
совпали даты
еврейского и
самаритянского
праздника
Суккот.
Корреспондент
NEWSru.co.il Мария
Кашевник
приняла
участие в поездке
в общину
самаритян,
организованной
компанией TravelLab под
руководством
Эйнат Кляйн.
ПРОДОЛЖИТЬ
ЧТЕНИЕ: http://www.newsru.co.il/photo/18oct2016/samaritains.html
Samaritan Sukkot: Friday Around Nablus- SOLD OUT
Finjan is taking a special Friday trip to Mount Gerizim
and the Samaritan community perched high above the Palestinian metropolis of
Nablus. The Samaritans are the smallest ethnic group in the world and we will
have the special opportunity to learn more about the community, its customs
(including ‘Samaritan Sukkot’) and its fascinating history.
Continue reading at https://signedevents.com/palestine/nablus/samaritan-sukkot-friday-around-nablus/
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In West Bank Hamlet, Ukrainian Brides
Help Samaritan Faith Stay Afloat
By Daniella Cheslow
KIRYAT
LUZA, West Bank -- At 33, Rafi Danfi was ready to marry. He had a house, a car,
and a good job at an Israeli telecoms giant -- but he couldn’t find a bride.
It’s a
common problem for men in the Samaritan sect, a religious community of several
hundred people who follow a strict interpretation of the Bible and do not marry
outside the faith.
Continue reading at RadioFreeEurope
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Read more at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/s_blessed_loan.pdf
Read more at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/Earthquake.pdf
Read more at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/Passover.pdf
Read more at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/Know_how_to__answer.pdf
Read more at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/The_Lion_in_the__Cupboard.pdf
Read more at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/Why_the__Turks.pdf
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An Invitation every Year to visit and learn at the Tsedaka
Residence
Festival of Sukkot - seven days – started the evening
of 15 October to 21 October 2016
The days [of the year have four days to prepare]
between Yom Kippur to Sukkot.
Every sukkah on
Sukkot many located in Holon and Mount Gerizim [150 Sukkot] hanging about 400
kg of fruit per different species. Usually sitting in the sukkah for seven days
but not staying there to sleep under it for fear of harmfulness of fruit drop.
The Succah
constructed in a central room in the house. In the past, before over 1,500 years,
the Succah built in the outside. But persecution, burning and dumping carcasses
Sukkot, made the decision to be given by a High priest to enter the sukkah to
maintain the beauty and dignity in the eyes of many guests who visit it
annually.
After the completion
of the sukkah, will be a pilgrimage on the first day [Saturday] to the summit
of Mount Gerizim.
After the
pilgrimage down to visit dozens of Succots in Mount Gerizim Kiriat Luza
Neighbourhood. Pilgrims from Holon will arrive by bus on Monday, October 17.
If there is a
holiday on Saturday and a person cannot reach the pilgrimage it will be held in
private, every day of the intermediate days of Succoth.
During the seven days of Succot will be recited prayers on morning and evening.
Visitors will visit with each other and bring the blessing of the holiday.
A symbolic
tithe second time of the year will be given by all Israelite males from a 20
years and on. The validity of the Succah and its holiness are up till October
21 till the evening of Shemini Atzeret [Eighth day of Succot.
Benyamim Tsedaka.
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WHY WAS THE SINAI ASSEMBLY NEVER MENTIONED IN THE LIST OF THE JOURNEYS
OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL?
The first meeting of the great prophet Moses
with the One who anointed him with the mission to release the Sons of Israel
from Egypt was at the Mountain of Chorev, also called Mount Sinai or the
Mountain of the Almighty, that is located just as it is described in the Torah
in the heart of the Sinai Desert. Moses is the "Angel" that is brought
by the Almighty; he is the messenger that received the first signal of many
signals that escorted his mission and the Exodus.
In order to reinforce the hesitant Moses to
accept the mission the Almighty said: "For I will be with you, and this is
the sign that I have brought you, when you will bring the people out of Egypt,
all of you will worship the Almighty on this Mountain".
Not the making of Moses staff as a snake and the
water in the ground as blood are the first signs, but this is the first sign
that leads to the complement of chapter one of the mission, releasing the
people to liberty after 215 years of slavery in Egypt. From the day the
brothers of Joseph told Pharaoh: "Your slaves are shepherds" till the
day their successors went from slavery to freedom lead by Moses, the Pillar of
Fire and the Pillar of Cloud, towards the Mountain of the Almighty, Mount of
Sinai.
This endeavor of bringing the people towards the
goal – Mount Sinai, where they would worship the Almighty, gave Moses the power
to stand all tortures of the long negotiation with Pharaoh the objector, and
also seeing the plagues on the heads of Pharaoh and his slaves and all the
Egyptians. This goal was expressed repeatedly by the sayings: Let my People go
and he will worship me" or "We will offer to our Almighty." The
entire chapter one of the mission was to fulfill the aim that was like oil in
the bones of the mission – To get to Mount Sinai, in the transition from
physical slavery of building barn cities to pharaoh in oppressed conditions to
spiritual slavery brought upon their heads from the top of Mount Sinai.
It is very likely that the seven weeks that
passed before them from the time of the Exodus until they received the Torah in
Mount Sinai was the only period they had of full freedom. Since they received
the Torah and the Commandments in the Sinai Covenant and said to Moses:
"You get close and hear all that our Almighty will say, and you will tell
it to us, all that our Almighty will say to you and we will hear and do,"
it was as if they said: we receive upon ourselves the entire weight of a new
slavery, but no more physical slavery but rather now and forever a spiritual
slavery, that it also includes fulfilling all the commandments of the Almighty
with no resistance.
During the seven weeks of the journey from the
Sea of Reeds to Mount Sinai the people were exposed to events that were meant
to strengthen them towards the great day of the Sinai Covenant, receiving the
Commandments and the weight of new spiritual slavery. All the people saw the
turning of the Sea to become earth in the place where they moved from the shore
of physical slavery to the safe shore of liberty. They saw the drowning of the
Egyptians in the sea. They were thirsty and they drank till saturation. They
were hungry and they ate until sated. They had been given the Shabbat for rest.
They fought 'Amalek and won, the first test of their power, where they
didn't watch it from the side as in the Reed Sea with the war of the Almighty
against the idols of Egypt, but they suffered casualties caused by physical
touch with the 'Amalekite enemy. They even won an organized legal system based
on justice on the eve of the established event of their history – the Assembly
of receiving the Torah in Mount Sinai. They heard the Ten Commandments from the
mouth of the Almighty, and heard the voices as they all fell down on their
faces to hear in full concentration the words of the Almighty.
The Ten Commandments – From any angle you see
them you will find they contain everything. They contain the unity of the
Almighty and define relation to Him. They contain the elimination of worship to
idols and the like. They contain the observance of the Shabbat to keep it and
consecrate it. They contain the deed of the Creation. They contain the principles
of justice between a man and his neighbor: Not to murder him, not to commit
adultery with his wife, not to steal his property, and not to covet anything
that belongs to him, not his house, not his wife, not his field, not his male
or female slaves, not his bull, not his donkey, nor anything that belongs to
him.
If the people will stand these basic
commandments of setting up respect of his fellow man to his Creator, and
between him and his neighbor, then he will get to the desired aim of worship of
the Almighty. Exchanging one temporary place of worship, Mount Sinai, for
a constant chosen place of worship of the eternal Almighty – Erecting an altar
to the Almighty in Mount Gerizim. This is the commandment that completes the
counting from the first commandments to the tenth.
Surprisingly, in the description of the journeys
of the Sons of Israel in the Desert of Sinai, the central event of the Sinai
Assembly and all the other events that escorted it: The visions and the voices,
giving the words of the Sinai Covenant, the Ten Commandments, the making of the
golden calf and its destruction, and giving the Two Tablets of the Covenant
again to replace the Tablets that Moses broke – this entire long event spanning
over 120 days is barely mentioned, only by these short words: "And they
camped in the Sinai Desert, and they journeyed from the Sinai Desert."
But the event of the Sinai Assembly, the
ambition to get to it that reinforced the People of Israel in their slavery
from Egypt, is many times more important and greater than the Exodus, their
journey through the desert, their thirstiness for water, or their lust to eat
meat, the death of Aaron, and the fact the Canaanite king of 'Arad heard about
the coming of the Sons of Israel.
How did it happen that the central event that
made the Sons of Israel the chosen people, was never mentioned among the
journeys of the Sons of Israel in the Sinai Desert till they approached the
Land of Canaan?
The only acceptable answer is that the list of
the journeys in the end of the Book of Numbers with all its many details of the
stations and places is not a complete list, if the main and greatest
established event is not mentioned.
Benyamim
Tsedaka
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Join us Tuesday, October 18 for a lecture by
visiting Professor Menachem Mor!
Judaic Studies, The Harold Schnitzer Family Program at the University
of Oregon
http://judaicstudies.uoregon.edu/2016/09/22/judaic-studies-welcomes-guest-lecturer-menachem-mor/
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di Redazione
(pubblicato il 20/10/2016 alle 23:46:44,
nella sezione EVENTI, 238 letture)
ben sedakaIn occasione della visita
in Sicilia del prof. Ben Sedaka (nella foto), portavoce delle Comunità
Samaritane nel mondo, l'Associazione INFORUM Europa, presieduta da Giacinto
Avola, in collaborazione con l'Ordine dei Cavalieri di Pitia, organizza una
Conferenza dal titolo: "Storia dei samaritani e rapporto con le altre
religioni". L'incontro avverrà mercoledì 26 ottobre dalle ore 17:00 alle
ore 20:00 in via Brenta 41 a Siracusa. Sedaka ha fondato l'israelita Samaritano
Information Institute, che promuove il patrimonio, la storia e la cultura
Samaritana. E' autore di 112 libri e pubblicazioni, tra cui "The
israelita" versione della Torah, un testo parallelo tra il Pentateuco
Samaritano e i testi classici della Torah, che rileva anche importanti
differenze tra i due testi. Ben Sedaka è anche un ricercato speaker internazionale
per la sua conoscenza approfondita circa i Samaritani, il loro patrimonio, la
loro storia e la loro cultura. La conferenza è quindi una buona occasione per
sentire Benyamim Sedaka parlare degli antichi samaritani dei tempi biblici e
dei Samaritani di oggi, della loro missione e del loro patrimonio storico e
culturale.
http://www.dioramaonline.org/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=1707
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YouTube video
The Priest Hosni Wassef Samaritan in a TV interview
"know astronomical calculation and figures
at Samaritan" Cult.
18/10/2016
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From the Editor
The following image (Left) of a Samaritan
Tourist scroll is the one this Editor owns also showing a smaller writing. See https://shomron0.tripod.com/update10.10.2002v.html
So now we see three small Samaritan tourist
Torah tin cases in private hands.
~~~
Recently, I located a copy of ‘A Critical Edition of the Baba Rabbah Section of the Samaritan
Chronicle No. II: With Translation and Commentary, a
dissertation by Jeffrey M. Cohen. University of Glasgow, Nov. 1977. You will
find additional articles that were not written in his published
work. Enjoy this PDF!
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They call themselves ‘World Union of
Isaric Samaritans (WUIS). The word ‘Isaric’ they have determined to mean, ‘from the Aramaic word איסרא isara, meaning a bond or tie.’
To be clear, one of the group’s
main tenants is; ‘Yeshu of Nazareth is
the Taa’eb (Restorer) and the Maashi (Anointed) of Yishrael, the promised
prophet like Mooshe.’ This is far from Israelite-Samaritan principles and
appears to be another form similar to Messianic Jews.
You can visit their website, if you wish at https://oneshomron.wordpress.com/
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Current publications
Ann Arbor: Legacy
Press, 2016.
First Edition. cloth
in dust jacket. 517 pp. Legacy Press, ISBN
9781965024 $85.00
In this volume: "Historical Bindings of the
Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan Collection" by Ruth Bardenstein
http://www.thelegacypress.com/suave-mechanicals-vol-3.html
Le mont Garizim, nouvelle «
Genève de la paix » : une capitale sans territoire ?
par Fanny Urien‑Lefranc
Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du
contemporain
IIAC, UMR 8177
Equipe lahic (ehess, cnrs)
105 Boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris 75006 Paris
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Forth Coming Book
John Screnock, University
of Oxford
In Traductor
Scriptor, John Screnock situates the Old Greek translation of the Hebrew
Bible within the broader scribal culture of the ancient world. Building on
current methods in Septuagint studies and textual criticism, Screnock engages
the evidence from Qumran, the Samaritan
Pentateuch, and the Old Greek to argue that the phenomena of translation
and transmission are fundamentally similar. Traductor Scriptor presents
a unique approach to the use of the Old Greek for textual criticism of the
Hebrew Bible, based on new theoretical considerations and an in-depth analysis
of text-critical data in the Old Greek translation and Hebrew manuscripts of
Exodus 1–14.
ISBN13: 9789004336209
Expected Date: January 2017
Copyright Year: 2017
Format: Hardback
Publication Type: Book
Pages, Illustr.: Approx. 225 pp.
Imprint: BRILL
Language: English
http://www.brill.com/products/book/traductor-scriptor
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‘The Destruction of the Samaritan Temple
by John Hyrcanus: A Reconsideration’
By Jonathan Bourgel
Journal of Biblical
Literature
Vol. 135, No. 3
(Fall 2016), pp. 505-523
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15699/jbl.1353.2016.3129?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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Coin on Ebay
Neapolis
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Obverse: IMP C M IVL PHILIPPO PF AVG. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of
Philip I facing right.
Reverse: NEAPOLI NEOCORO Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread,
support Mt. Gerizim temple complex. COL S above eagle's wings.
In very good to fine condition.
Weight: 14.29; Diameter: 25.5mm
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Links
Who are the Samaritans and why is their future
uncertain?
By A.V.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/10/economist-explains-14
An Altar on Mt Ebal or Mt Gerizim: The Torah in
the Sectarian Debate
By Dr. Jonathan Ben-Dov
http://thetorah.com/an-altar-on-mt-ebal-or-mt-gerizim-the-torah-in-the-sectarian-debate/
Afflicting the Soul: A Day When Even Children
Must Fast
By Benyamim Tsedaka
http://thetorah.com/afflicting-the-soul-a-day-when-even-children-must-fast/
Sukkot: The Sukkah and the Israelite Samaritan
Tradition of Sukkot
https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/religion/sukkah/
A Fruity Sukkah Made from the Four Species
By Benyamim Tsedaka
http://thetorah.com/fruity-sukkah-made-from-the-four-species/
Mount Gerizim and the Polemic against the
Samaritans
By Dr. Eyal Baruch
http://thetorah.com/mount-gerizim-and-the-polemic-against-the-samaritans/
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Old News
THE SAMARITANS.
We have recently been informed that a Hebrew school for the
children of the Samaritans is now being maintained by the Educational
Department of the Zionist Organisation. It is valuable news, and profoundly
interesting in view of the chequered history of that famous sect, which some
years ago was threatened with utter extinction.
It is gratifying to know that the school will be maintained, by
Zionist assistance, and thus a romantic link with the ancient past will be
preserved. For the story of the Samaritans carries us back to Bible times, when
a King of Assyria invaded Samaria, carried off: its inhabitants into nameless
exile, and replaced them by his own subjects drawn from the countries of the
further East. Ever since, the Samaritans have remained rooted to their original
spot, the oldest living inhabitants of the Holy Land, over which they have kept
watch and ward these thousands of years, as if planted there to assert Israel's
inalienable claim to its soil.
When the Judeans returned from captivity and set about the re-building
of the Temple at Jerusalem, the Samaritans (or Cutheans, as they were sometimes
called, from a district in Assyria from in which they hailed) put forward a
claim to be allowed to participate in this great national undertaking. Their
claim was refused. Embittered by this hostile reception, they became open
enemies of the Jews, and since they could not share in the building of the
Temple, they determined to obstruct it. So they became known as 'the
adversaries of Judah and Benjamin,” and they built for themselves a rival
Temple at Mount Gerizim, at the same
time falsifying their copies of the Pentateuch to make it appear that Gerizim and not Zion was the sacred
spot which Moses had ordained.
The Samaritan Pentateuch, which is the only portion of the Hebrew
Scriptures they have adopted, is a document of much interest. Its antiquity is
attested by the fact that it is written in the rude character used by the
Hebrews before the exile. But that it is not a genuine version must be evident
to anyone who will take the trouble to study its variations from the received-text.
It is full of spurious emendations, some having the deliberate object of
conforming certain Scriptural passages to the Samaritan mode of worship, others
being intended- to remove obscurities from the text, and yet others being due
to an imperfect, knowledge of Hebrew. The ordinance of a seven-day Passover is
altered to one of six days. “You have falsified your Pentateuch,” exclaimed a
Talmudical Rabbi, ''and have- profited naught thereby.”
Having set up a separate form of worship, they took every
opportunity of harassing the' Jewish community from which they had been so
jealously excluded. They waylaid pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem, so that
many had to take the longer route by the East of Jordan. On one occasion they effected
an entrance into the Temple, which they defiled. The Jews of Palestine, were in
the habit of notifying the new moon to their brethern in Babylon by means of
beacon fires. The Samaritans kindled rival signals to confuse the watchers on
the banks of the Euphrates. The Jewish Rabbins retaliated by a number of
hostile ordinances, designed to perpetuate their exclusion from the community.
Anything that a Samaritan had touched was accounted as swine's flesh. A Samaritan
could not be admitted as a witness in a court of law. He was debarred from the
privilege of proselytism. Any one offering him hospitality deserved that his
children should go into exile. But not
all the Rabbins were equally intolerant. Some maintained that the
Samaritans were to be treated in every way as Israelites. It was admitted that
they kept the Mosiac Law and many of the traditional practices founded thereon
with even greater rigour than Jews themselves. But after a time there grew up a
re-action against the Samaritans, and they were unconditionally excluded from
the community of Israel.
Since then their history has been a chequered one; prosperity
following on adversity, triumph and elation being succeeded by defeat and depression.
The Maccabean High Priest, John Hyrcanus, marched against Shechem, their
capital, and destroyed their Temple on Mount Gerizim. The Samaritans built
themselves another in its place. 'When the old capital fell into ruins
Vespasian built a new city in the neighbourhood, which he called Neaopolis, and
which acquired amongst the Arabs of later times the name of Nablus.
The Romans also found them turbulent people.- Thousands were
slaughtered by Vespasian's soldiers. In a revolt against Septimus Severus they
fought on the Jewish side. In the fourth century they were described as the
chief and most dangerous adversaries of Christianity. Sometimes the Church
Fathers confounded them with the Jews. 'An outrage which they committed in the
fifth century against the Christians of Neaopolis was so severely punished that
from that: time they sank into obscurity and ceased to take any part in
politics. From having been a numerous and
influential people they have gradually dwindled, until to-day their settlement
comprises no more than 260 persons,
for the most part extremely poor and unfettered. Followers of the Law of Moses,
they continue to practise the ancient religion of Israel. Although their temple
has long been laid in ruins, they are unwilling to abandon the sacrificial
ritual, and are still to be seen-
on' the eve of Passover offering
a' Paschal lamb on the heights of
Nablus, more than 1800 years after
this ceremonial has been abandoned by
their Jewish neighbours. It is a pathetic spectacle they present in the tenacity
with which they cling to their ancient traditions.
The old feeling of hostility towards them
has long since died out among their Jewish
co-religionists. We can have nothing but admiration for the constancy with which, for thousands of years,
they
have worshipped the one God whose unity it
is our mission to proclaim.
From The Hebrew Standard
of Australazia
(Sydney, NSW) Fri 13 Jan 1922 page 4, 5.
An Australian in
Palestine: Striking Travel Pictures
Rev. Father Cornelius Boberts, who,
after his ordination at Borne recently, went with some other young priests on a
trip through Palestine, writes us the following impressions of his tour. Father
Boberts is from Brisbane. He made some of his studies at St. Patrick's College,
Manly, and finished at Borne:………………
The 'True Sons of the Patriarchs.'
Before concluding these random observations on Jews in
Palestine to-day, it would not be out of place to mention a community that
professes to be the 'true sons of the Patriarchs,' and the only body that has
kept up an exact observance of the Law of Moses. These are the Samaritans who
live in Nablous, the ancient Sichem. They have what they call a priesthood, under
the presidency of a High Priest. We saw their little synagogue, which could be
opened for us only when three priests, each having a different key, came to
unlock the door.
Their proudest possession is a manuscript containing the
Pentateuch, and one of the priests in all seriousness told us that it was 3?29
years old! Another drew aside a green curtain and took up some object covered
with a rich green veil. When uncovered it proved to be a large cylinder, and
inside this again was a laree parchment manuscript rolled on rods. Asked if
there was any truth in the amazing statement that this very document was
written by Moses, these ingenious people replied that this manuscript was not
exactly that written by Moses, but one made 13 years after his death.
They also told us that on the preceding evening they had
offered a sacrifice of a lamb on the neighbouring mountain, Djebel el Tour,
which at the time of Our Lord was known as Mount Garizim, and was pointed
out to Him by the Samaritan woman at the well as that on which her ancestors
had offered sacrifice.
The Tombs of the Patriarchs at Hebron, the 'Vale' of
Mambre, the excavations at Bethsau, and the important discovery of the Jebusite
wall at Ophel— all these objects of topical interest could be described, but
these lines must be restricted to the subject with which they began, although
they mention but a trilling part of a long series of experiences of absorbing
interest in the native country of Our Divine Lord.
In The
Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW,) Thu 15, 1925 page
10 [scanned pages show a very dark photo of the Samaritan High Priest with the
Torah]
AN ANCIENT RACE.
Its Last Survivors.
THE SAMARITAN PASSOVER.
In the attractive pages of Overseas,''
a popular publication run in connection with the Overseas Club in London, Sir John
Robert O'Connell, LL.D., formerly a leading solicitor in Dublin, and one
prominent in Catholic circles in the Irish metro polis, gives the following interesting
account of an almost disappearing people:
The Samaritan people, who to-day
number in all only some 135, living huddled together around a small synagogue
in Nablus, about forty miles north of Jerusalem, on the main road between the
Holy City and Nazareth, are the last survivors of one of the most ancient races
and live in one of the most venerable places in the world. For their town of
Nablus — the new city, 'Neapolis'— is no other than Shechem, to which Abraham
departing out of Haran 'came unto the land of Canaan unto the place of
Shechem in the plain of Moreh.'
Here Jacob spread his tents in the fields, and set up his altar; and here the
bones of Joseph, brought from distant Egypt, were buried in a tomb which is
venerated to this day. And here when King Solomon died the people of Israel
assembled to offer to his son Rehoboam that kingship of Israel which the folly and
insolence of that young monarch was so soon to cast away. Thus Shechem 'of the tribe
of Ephraim' goes back in its story to the very beginning of history; but it continues
down through the ages, and St. Peter and St. John made converts and 'announced
the good tidings in several Samaritan villages;' and a century or more later on
of the greatest apologists of early Christianity, St. Justin, was born within
its walls. But the Samaritans, as they survive to-day, are the
descendants of that strange idolatrous tribe who settled down here when the
Ephraimites were held in captivity in Babylon, and who - then, as now,
steadfastly refused to look to Jerusalem as the Holy City, claiming that Most
Gerizim was 'the Mountain of Blessing,' and that it and not Mount Moriah was
the true site of the Holy Temple.
An Almost Extinct Bace.
Thus arose that quarrel between the
Samaritans and the Jews, which has grown only more bitter with the passing of
the centuries, and which, as Mr. Robert Hichens notes, made 'this strange race,
now almost extinct, famous for malice, for pertinacity, for fanaticism, and for
a certain dogged indifference to the opinions of those whose power has been
greater than its own.'
The existence of the Samaritans, now
restricted to Nablus, is devoted to the assertion of the claim of Mount Gerizim to
be the true site of the Holy Temple, and to the preservation of their ancient
and rapidly diminishing numbers — an object rendered all the more difficult by
the fact that the Samaritans consistently refused to impair the purity of
their caste by marriage outside their own people.
The Feast Itself.
The most important event in the
Samaritan calendar is the Feast of the Passover, celebrated on Mount Gerizim, in
the month of April, when the entire people, young and old, sick or strong,
ascend or are carried up the mountain, encamping on the top in their reserved
enclosure. The priests, arrayed in vestments which have obviously come down in
form from very remote times, present a type of countenance of a peculiarly
Semitic character, bearing a strong likeness to those found in Assyrian
remains. The priests having offered, aloud and fervently, prayer in attitudes
and with prostrations much resembling the Mahommedan ritual as seen to-day, the
high priest, facing the West at the moment of sunset, pronounces the words,
'and the whole congregation of Israel shall kill it.' At the word 'kill' seven
unblemished lambs, which have been hitherto grazing unconcernedly in the little
compound, are seized by the priests, and their throats are cut by the ritual
slaughterers amidst cries of joy and triumph from the excited Samaritans. A
young priest hastens to collect in a pan the blood of the victims, which is
subsequently used to sprinkle the doors of the tents. The lambs are sprinkled
with boiling water to enable their wool to be more easily removed, and they are
then fleeced, dressed, cleansed with salt, and their viscera removed, to be
burned as an offering on the alter by the high priest. The lambs are tied by their
feet to a pole, which is lowered into a great stone oven sunk some six feet in the
ground, and brought to a red heat by logs of wood and brambles being heaped into
it. Here the lambs are roasted whole, the flesh, when cooked, being distributed
amongst the Samaritans, by whom it is eaten 'with unleavened bread,
and with bitter herbs as they stand with their loins girt.'
The Passover of the Samaritans on
Mt. Gerizim is undoubtedly the most ancient blood sacrifice now celebrated
in the world. It goes back to the very beginnings of recorded history; it has
been celebrated practice ally without a break year after year- at any rate,
since the Samaritans settled in the land of Canaan. Its interest for
us to day is not the question of the age-long dispute as to which should be the
true place of the Holy Temple, Mount Moraih or Mount Gerizim, but the fact
that this ancient sacrifice must, at no very distant date, cease to be
celebrated, as the Samaritan sect is gradually but inevitably dying out.
In The
Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW) Thu 18, Nov. 1926,
Page 5
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW) Sat 1 Jan. 1927 page 10
Ancient Samaritan Symbols Found
(By Ted R. Lurie)
JERASULEM – (Associated Press)
- Religious Symbols of the ancient Samaritan sect were discovered: for the
first time here in the remains of a fourth-century synagogue just excavated by
the Hebrew University.
The digging was carried
out at the village of Saalbit, near the Arab front lines. The archaeologists
had a special machine-gun squad, of Israeli soldiers to protect them against any
possible sniping from Arab Legion positions. No shooting took place, however,
but Arabs who infiltrated across the lines into Israel one night stole some of
the diggers' tools.
The workmen were
recruited from among new immigrants from Czechoslovakia settled in a neighbouring
village which they have renamed Lidice—in commemoration of the Czech village
exterminated by the Nazis.
The first indication of
the remains of this Samaritan synagogue was discovered about a year ago by a
party of Israeli soldiers who found a section of mosaic floor. The excavations
have now revealed the basic structure of the synagogue 17 metres long and 8 metres
wide, with part of the floor paved with mosaic designs. There was a biblical in
scriptum from chapter xv, verse 18 of the Book of Exodus: "The Lord shall
reign for ever and ever."
FIRST FOUND IN SITU
This is the first time
that a Samaritan place of worship has been found in Situ, and for the first
time the Samaritan symbol, hitherto unknown, of two seven-branched candelabra flanking
the design of a mountain.
The mountain represents Mount Gerizim where the Samaritans built their temple sometime around the fifth century, B.C., after
being excluded from the Renascent community of Israel which was then rebuilding
its temple in Jerusalem. Unlike Jewish synagogues which are built to face
Jerusalem. Samaritan synagogues all point to Mount Gerizim, situated just south of Nablus.
There is still a very
small community of Samaritans living at Nablus, which is in the “triangle area" of
Palestine, now held by King Abdullah‘s Arab Legion.
The village of Saalbit,
where the synagogue was found, is identified by scholars with the biblical city
of Shaalabbin mentioned in Joshua 19/42 as one of the principal cities of the
Tribe of Dan. The work there was carried out under the direction of Professor
E. L. Sukenik, with funds from a 50,000 dollar (£A22,300 -£NZ17,800) gift which
he received during his recent visit to the United States from Louis M Rabinovitz
of New York. This fund is to be used for a special project of exploration of ancient
synagogue sites in the Near East.
COMPLETE SURVEY
The first task to be
under taken by the Hebrew University archaeologists under this project will be
a complete survey of the sites of about forty synagogues dating from the first
centuries of the Christian era. The final study of these ¡remains will be
summed up in a five-volume work which may take six or seven years to complete.
Some of the sites to be explored are located in Trans-jordan, Syria and Greece,
and excavation will have to wait for the conclusion of peace treaties between
Israel and her neighbours.
One of the first which
Professor Sukenik wishes to excavate is the well-known Capernaum Synagogue or
the Set of Galilee. Capernaum was the scene of Christ's ministry mentioned in
St Matthew chapter IV and in St John chapter V.
Although this synagogue
was excavated at the beginning this century by German archaeologists, and later
by the 'Franciscans, who are the proprietors of the site, Professor Sukenik
stated that there are still many important problems in connexion with synagogue
architecture and decoration which remain to be cleared up. One of the questions
is the location of the Torah Shrine in the synagogue.
The entire project may
yield valuable information on architectural design of synagogues and
demonstrate the relationship between early Christian art and Judaism. "The
origins of Christianity can only be studied with a knowledge of the early
synagogues as early Christian art was based on Jewish biblical pictures. The mutual
influence of Judaism and Christianity on one another can be studied clearly in this
way," Professor Sukenik said.
In Morning Bulletin (Rockhanpton, Qld) Thu 29 Dec. 1949 Page 6
A
LINK WITH AARON
SAMARITAN MANUSCRIPTS
The Jerusalem
correspondent of the London 'Graphic' writes:— 'The accompanying illustrations
will receive additional interest from the fact that by the time they reach you,
Isaac, the next in succession to the High Priesthood of the Samaritans
will have arrived in
London, bearing with him some rare, ancient scrolls, which he proposes to offer
for sale to the British Museum. He comes from his distant home in Nablous, the
Shechem of Bible story, where, under the shadow of Gerizim, their sacred mountain,
the rapidly diminishing remnant of the once numerous Samaritan nation still
lives and worships, as they did in the time of Christ. This once powerful people
had, about a century ago, dwindled away until they numbered but a few thou sand,
living in scattered communities in Syria and Egypt. Now their sole
representatives are the hundred souls which compose the Nablous community.
Their numbers still are decreasing, and they are likely to become extinct at no
distant day as they do not marry outside their own circle, and the number of
possible wives and mothers is exceedingly small. It is peculiar to that region
of Palestine that, in every nationality, the males outnumber the females. The Samaritans are very poor, their
most valuable possessions being some ancient scrolls, one of which is the
celebrated Samaritan Pentateuch, which, they claim, was written by the grandson
of Aaron, and bears his name. They guard it with jealous care and seldom permit
it to be seen. If travellers are persistent in their requests to look upon this
monument of antiquity they are generally shown another scroll.’
One of the scrolls to be
offered to the British Museum— a page from which is here shown— is of 18 leaves
of parchment, each 12 by 8 in., written on both sides, containing, in Samaritan
characters, the
genealogical annals of
the Samaritan High Priests. When a High Priest dies his successor records in
this document the term of the Pontificate of his predecessor, and notes briefly
any event of great importance. It shows the lineal descent of Jacob, the present
High Priest, from Aaron, the brother of Moses. We reproduce (from the London
'Graphic') one of the most interesting pages of this relic of antiquity. Its
interest lies in the fact that it is there in recorded by the High. Priest of
that time that he had made this copy of the annals from the original, which had
been begun by Phinehas, the son of Aaron. The copy was made in the 544th year
of the Hejira (A.D. 1166), as the note one may see
in the margin, of the
scroll records. An item of overwhelming interest, which of prior page of this
scroll chronicles, is the birth of Jesus, spoken of as the son of Joseph the
carpenter, and his crucifixion in the Pontificate of the High Priest Jonathan.
[Images in paper:]
A DESCENDANT OF AARON;
JACOB, THE PRESENT
SAMARITAN HIGH PRIEST.
PART OF AN ANCIENT
SAMARITAN SCROLL.
ISAAC, THE NEXT IN
SUCCESSION TO THE
PONTIFICATE NOW VISITING
ENGLAND.
In Chronicle
(Adelaide, SA) Sat 26 Jan 1907 page 30
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New Articles
The Destruction of the Samaritan Temple by John Hyrcanus: A Reconsideration
Jonathan Bourgel
Journal of Biblical Literature
Vol. 135, No. 3
(Fall 2016), pp. 505-523
Abstract: The destruction of the Samaritan
temple on Mount Gerizim by John Hyrcanus (ca. 112/111 BCE) is often regarded as
the decisive cause of the final breach between Jews and Samaritans. This action
is usually interpreted as one of hatred and contempt directed against the
Samaritan community as a whole; it has even been maintained that Hyrcanus's
real intention was to exclude the Samaritans from Judaism. Yet comparative
analysis of John Hyrcanus's treatment of the people he subdued may lead to the opposite
conclusion. I propose that John Hyrcanus's policy toward the Samaritans was
aimed at forcing their integration into the Hasmonean state, which would lead
to their exclusive dedication to the Jerusalem temple and its high priest.
Published along with Pagani et al. 2016, the EGDP dataset is freely available at the Estonian
Biocentre website as VCF and PLINK binary files here. It overlaps at ~550K SNPs with Broad MITs/Harvard's Human
Origins, and at an impressive ~1.1 million SNPs with the ~1.2 million SNP
ancient DNA chip used by the Reich Lab and others.
Continue reading at http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2016/09/estonian-biocentre-human-genome.html
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Biblio
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A Critical Edition of the Baba Rabbah Section of the
Samaritan Chronicle No. II: With Translation and Commentary. PHD Thesis, University of Glasgow, November 1977
'A Samaritan authentication of the rabbinic interpretation
of Kephi tahra,'
Vetus Testamentum, xxiv, July 1974, no. 3, pp 361-366
'Where did the Samaritans really come from?' Bookmark (May, 1978),
pp. 305
Eybers, I.H.
Relations Between Jews and Samaritans in the Persian Period, OTWSA 9 (1966) 72-89. S. 79-80 zu einschlägigen Josephusberichten in Ant.
Schorch, Stefan
Learning Torah in the Contemporary Samaritan Community – ‘Das Lernen der Tora bei den Samaritanern heute und drei samaritanische Erzählungen über das Lernen’ WuD 26 (2001), 107-126.
Shehedah, Hasseb
The first report on the
manuscript collection Samaritans St. Petersburg
גליון 495-195, 3991.8.02 עמ' 91- 13. דין וחשבון ראשוני על אוסף כתבי היד השומרוניים בסנט-פטרבורג
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Samaritan Manuscripts in St. Petersburg [download article in Hebrew]
https://www.academia.edu/29567057/Samaritan_Manuscripts_in_St._Petersburg?campaign=upload_email
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