“Mount Gerizim,
All the Days of Our
Lives”
July / August
2017
Vol. XVI - No 6
In This Issue ·
Auction ·
Samaritan Medal ·
5 Shehadeh articles ·
Benny’s Tour ·
Facebook Post ·
Links ·
From The Editor ·
Past Auctions ·
Conferences ·
Call for Papers ·
Wikipedia photos ·
Links ·
Publications · Biblio
On January 1, 2017, the Samaritan Community
numbered 796.
Future Events
It has been 3655 years
since the entrance into the Holy Land
(Samaritan’s typical calendar)
2017
The Sixth Month 3656 - Monday evening, 21 August
2017
The Seventh Month 3656 - Tuesday evening, 19
September 2017
Festival of the 1st Day of the 7th Month 3656 Wednesday Sept. 20, Day of Atonement Friday Sept. 29, 2017
Festival of Sukkot/ third Pilgrimage Wednesday Oct. 4, 2017
Festival of the Eighth Day Wednesday Oct. 11, 2017
The Eighth Month 3656 - Thursday Evening, 19 October
2017
The Ninth Month 3656 - Friday Evening, 17 November
2017
The Tenth Month 3656 - Sunday Evening, 17 December
2017
The Eleventh Month 3656 - Tuesday Evening, 16
January 2018
The Twelfth Month 3656 - Thursday Evening, 15
February 2018
The Thirteenth Month 3656 - Saturday Evening, 17
March 2018
The First Month 3656 - Sunday Evening, 15 April 2018
Passover Sacrifice: Sunday evening between the
sunsets (7:19 pm) 29 April 2018
[Calculated by: Priest
Yakkiir ['Aziz] b. High Priest Jacob b. 'Azzi – Kiriat Luza, Mount Gerizim]
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Auction at Jerusalem of Gold Ltd.
Description: A
Samaritan composition on the calculation of the calendar and chronology,
including a list of events and a list of high priests. Written in Nablus
between the years 1920-1930.
The manuscript is incomplete. The chronological lists reach up to the year
"five and forty and nine hundred [to the Ishmaelites]", that is the
Hijra (the Moslem calendar) - 1538.
Attached is the opinion of Mr. Shlomo Tzuker, a manuscript expert.
Thick paper. Eloquent Samaritan script. Emphases in red and green ink.
Est: $1,000 - $2,000 [book was
sold, cannot find purchase amount]
39
pp. 20x12.5 cm. Condition: Very Good. New binding. Link
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The First Samaritan Medal
for Peace and Humanitarian Achievements
was Awarded to Mr. Bashar ElMasri - The great Builder
and Establisher of Rawabi, the First Palestinian City
A distinguished Samaritan
Delegation came on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 to the Rawabi, the first
Palestinian City, between Beer Zeit to Ramalla to the ceremony of awarding its
builder and establisher Mr. Bashar ElMasri the first Samaritan Medal for Peace
and Humanitarian Achievements.
The Priests Abraham b.
Phinhas and Yusef b. Tsedaka headed the delegation with dignitaries of the
Mount Gerizim Samaritan Community: Menashe b. Tamim Altif, Yusef b. ’Afif Altif
and Chefetz b. Marchiv the Marchivi. Also present Yitzhaq Altif the Secretary
of Mount Gerizim Community Committee and its member Ben-Yehuda Altif. Also were
Yahav Altif, the witer of this report Benyamim and his brother Yefet b. Ratson
Tsedaka.
The High Priest ’Abed-El
could not come to the ceremony due to fact that he was not feeling well that
day.
The visit started with a
short tour in a minibus around the new Palestinian City Rawabi. The delegation
was very impressed from what they have seen. The city still in its advanced
development and will be complete in a couple of years, high condominiums,
shopping center, cultural center, an amphitheater for 15,000 guests, schools,
kindergartens, gardens, artificial waterfall etc. The city was built with
encouragement from the Government of Israel in a form of the letter Q which is
the beginning character of the Principality of Qatar who invested a lot of
money in building the city. So far the city populated in only 10% of its
capacity which will be complete by 40,000 residents eventually.
The polite Guide Mr.
Nassar has mentioned many times the initial obstacles in building Rawabi
relating it to no other choice under what so called by him, ”The Israeli
Occupation“. The Samaritans are the last to hear such complaints since they are
not involved by their own choice in politics unless if the subject is their own
concern and reflects on their own political future and existence. But the guide
should put his finger on the fact that Rawabi is the only new Palestinian city
in the Middle East and in the entire world thanks to Israel‘s policy to let the
Palestinians develop their own life by their own hands in dignity and self-confidence,
because Israel considers the building of Rawabi as a positive subject.
Priest Abraham b. Phinhas
has blessed ElMasri with the blessing of the High Priests as it is written in
Numbers, 6:22-27. Mr. Elmasri looked so happy with this special gesture.
Secretary Altif read the
document of the rights and qualities of ElMasri to be awarded with the Medal.
Mr. Elmasri is the nephew of another great builder Mr. Munib ElMasri a
recipient of the Samaritan Medal and great builder like him. In his youth Mr.
Bashar Elmasri as a Nablus born studied with young Samaritans. His family moved
to America where he specialized in construction of big cities. Then he returned
home to help his own people.
The Representative of the
Palestinian Authority remarked prominently the better relations between the
Palestinian Government and the Samaritans. Then Benyamim Tsedaka awarded the
Medal to Mr. ElMasri utilizing the short moments to explain to Elmasri and the
Palestinian noble guests as well as the many persons of the press the special
status of the Israelite Samaritans as a bridge of peace between the
Palestinians and Israel.
The writer said how
important is making peace in this region to future of his own people, the
Israelite Samaritans. Benyamim remarked specially the remarkable contribution
of Bashar ElMasri to achieve peace in the region by giving the wide opportunity
to many thousands of Palestinian employees to have their own residence and good
jobs to live their life from now on in respect and dignity, which in total
serves the idea of honoring Mr. Bashar ElMasri with the Samaritan Medal of
Peace and Humanitarian Achievements.
Benyamim said to ElMasri
that playing the roll of being a bridge of peace between the two entities
caused a big respect by both entities towards the Israelite Samaritans, since
the Samaritans give the same respect to Israel and the the Palestinian
Authority. Benyamim asked ElMasri to continue with his blessed work to the
benefit of his own people.
Mr. Elmasri paid his own
gratitude to the Board of the Samaritan Medal Foundation. He said that he is
very excited by the idea. He told the audiences about his long friendship with
some of the Samaritans on Mount Gerizim. In a couple of months he will head a
delegation of the City of Rawabi to Mount Gerizim to check closely some
projects of development on the Mountain.
Then all the dignified
guests were invited to a special and tasty fish and salads lunch where Elmasri
chatted quietly and widely with his Samaritan friends. He laughed loudly when
the writer told him that he is so good in welcoming guests as the Samaritans do
themselves.
Benyamim Tsedaka
Pictures: Awarding the Samaritan Medal to Mr, Bashar ElMasri
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The front page of current issue of the magazine:
A.B. - The Samaritan News
No. 1244-1245 - 1.8.2017 - 100 pages.
Editors: The
brothers Benyamim and Yefet b. Ratson Tsedaka
Bi-Weekly, First published in December 1, 1969
The Headlines:
- The National Library in Jerusalm has
Donated One Million English Pounds to the British Library in London, England,
and One Million Euros to the National Library in Paris, France for Digitizing
their Samaritan Manuscripts Collections to Make Them Accessible in their
Internet Huge Sites to Every Interested Surfer
- Today starts the
Project of the New Contruction of the Main Road Inside Kiriat Luza, Mount
Gerizim After the New Construction of Bracha-Kiriat Luza Road is Complete
Picture: A
Deteriorated Fragment from an Ancient Samaritan Torah Codex was Found in Cairo
Geniza
In the Section in
English: - Connecting Palestinian Authority Samaritans with Israel By: David
Rosenberg
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Five New
Articles from Haseeb Shehadeh
Read more at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/thelightofpoetry.pdf
Read more at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/fiftyyearstotheunification.pdf
Read more at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/ahousethatyoubuild.pdf
Read more at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/abushamattheagile.pdf
Read more at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/ourGodisOne.pdf
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Benyamim
Tsedaka 2017 Tour
The
schedule for the annual world tour of meetings, research and lectures. This
year the tour lasts from 12 October to 24 December 2017.
The
timetable is flexible, and includes these places:
15
October - Catania, Sicily,
ITALY
22
October - London, UK
29
October - São Luís, Maranhão,
BRAZIL
5 November
- Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
12
November - São Paulo, BRAZIL
19
November - Toronto, Montreal,
CANADA
26
November - Seattle, WA, USA
3 December
- Washington DC, USA
10
December - Burlington, NC, USA
17
December - Cincinnati, OH, USA
24
December - Home
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Facebook Post
Ezhak
Cohen posted a photo on Facebook, August 28, 2017 of the freshly paved roads on
Mount Gerizim.
Textual
Plurality Beyond the Biblical Texts
International
Conference, Metz, October 17-19, 2017
Stefan
Schorch: The Samaritan Targumim – How, and How Many of Them?
(Thursday,
19 October 14:20)
Compared with the Masoretic text, manuscripts
of the Samaritan Pentateuch attest a considerable amount of variation in many
textual details, and the degree of these deviations is considerably higher than
in the case of the Masoretic tradition. Thus, unlike MT, the text of the
Samaritan Pentateuch has been preserving a certain fluidness. Thanks to a
substantial corpus of Samaritan Hebrew manuscripts, this phenomenon can well be
studied and described for the period since the 11th century. For earlier times,
however, i.e. the period before the 11th century, Hebrew witnesses for the
Samaritan Pentateuch are generally absent, apart from a few Samaritan
inscriptions with Biblical texts, although some textual data can be infered
from the so-called pre-Samaritan manuscripts found at Qumran. Thus, the most
important source for our knowledge of the textual data from this period is the
Samaritan Targum.
An
Aramaic version of the Samaritan Pentateuch emerged first in the 1st‒3rd
century CE, but it became subject to a continuous process of textual and
linguistic adaption, until Aramaic ceased to be a spoken language among the
Samaritans in the 11th century. The extant manuscripts of the Samaritan Targum
preserve in fact several stages of this long and complicated textual history,
enabling us to use them as secondary witnesses for the reconstruction of the
tendencies operative in the Samaritan Hebrew text of the Pentateuch within the
“dark age” of absent Hebrew witnesses, which spans between the pre-Samaritan
manuscripts from Qumran and the oldest available manuscripts of the Samaritan
Pentateuch. The paper will outline this substantial contribution of the
Samaritan Targum to the textual history and textual criticism of the Samaritan
Pentateuch.
However,
in order to better understand the dynamic relationship between the Samaritan
Hebrew Pentateuch and the Samaritan Targum, several fundamental questions need
to be carefully analyzed, especially the following: – How “literal” was the translation technique
attested in the Samaritan Targum, and which exegetical features can be detected
? Do the different manuscript witnesses of the Samaritan Targum relate to one
original translation, or do they in fact go back to several translations ?
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From the
Editor
I have read so many different articles on the Samaritans over the
years and seen many obscure information, but I always try to ask questions.
Recently I read a short article
by Chavoux Luyt;
‘The Samaritan text has a few
peculiarities, specifically with regards to where the temple should be. We know
that this was a change in order to legitimise their own choice of the temple in
a city outside Judah, but near Samaria instead. It only includes the
Torah and none of the prophets or other writings. But it is these
later books that record the later history of Israel and also makes it clear
that it is unlikely for the Samaritan text to be the original. It might have
some use in clearing up uncertain parts of the Masoretic text.
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Notice:
the publication date has changed for:
Volume
III, Leviticus, Ed. by Schorch, Stefan To be published: October 2017
Publication Date: 2018 Copyright year: 2018
Past
Auction
Lot
34D: Ancient Samaritan Bronze Signet Ring - Byzantine Period
Sold: Log in to view. Artemis Gallery, April 12, 2017. Louisville,
CO, US
Item Overview Description: Ancient Near East, Samaritan, Byzantine
Period, ca. 5th to 7th century CE. A beautiful cast bronze signet ring with
incised Samaritan script. The ring band widens slightly at the inside point. US
ring size 8.5
A Samaritan bronze ring with an Old Testament inscription in
Samaritan script sold at Christie's New York for $2,629 (Sale
1163, 12 December 2002). Provenance:
Ex-Private Florida collection acquired in the 1980's.
Christies sold another ring lot
324, years before
Christies does not appear
to have sold any Samaritan manuscripts todate.
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Links
Conference
contributors, BAJS 2017
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2017 AT 9:06AM
Jews on the Move: Exploring the movement of Jews,
objects, texts, and ideas in space and time. Contributors from Manchester to
the BAJS Conference 2017 included Marci Freedman, Chronicle of Ahima'az"
Tomb tours to the Holy Land: Exploring Jewish pilgrimages in the Middle Ages;
Stefania Silvestri, Beyond a closed box: a Yeminite Pentateuch manuscript, its
box binding and production models; Katharina Keim, The sale and export of
Samaritan manuscripts to Western collections in the early twentieth century: a
comparative analysis of the Samaritan collecting of Moses Gaster, E.K. Warren,
and William E. Barton; Maria Cioată, Dr Moses Gaster's Istoria Biblica
on the move; Philip Alexander, From Vitebsk to Glasgow: a tale of two cantors;
Renate Smithuis, Donning borrowed clothes: Judah Halevi, Ibn Kammuna and Shi'i
Theology; Katja Stuerzenhofecker, Displaying Religious Jews in Jewish Studies
Classrooms. Further information. Also see: https://jewishstudiesedinburgh.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/bajs-2017-programme-final.pdf
Current
research projects
The letters, which passed between Jewish scholar Moses Gaster in
London and the Samaritan community in Nablus between 1904 and 1933, offer
insights into Gaster’s contribution to the field of Samaritan Studies.
Katharina is working to clarify the motives and methods behind Gaster’s
creation of one of the most important collections of “oriental” manuscripts
assembled in the 20th century, against the backdrop of the desperate attempts
of the small Samaritan community to preserve its cultural heritage while declining
in number.
http://www.jrri.manchester.ac.uk/research/current-research/research-projects/moses-gaster/
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2017 INTERNATIONAL MEETING SBL
Berlin, Germany
8/7/2017 - 8/11/2017
https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Internationalmeeting.aspx
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Description: Jews, Christians, and
Samaritans living under Muslim rule translated their sacred scriptures into
Arabic. Interest in this vast treasure of texts has grown, and their
contribution to the history of interpretation and religious history is
considerable. This unit will discuss these translations, as well as how they
were influenced by the Qur’an and used in inter-religious conversations.
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Description: This seminar approaches
biblical literature through its most famous and pivotal characters, for it is
around them that the subsequent biblical story is organized and arranged.
Moreover, these characters have come to enjoy a life and fame that extends well
beyond the basic Old Testament, Miqra, and New Testament, and even into the
Qur’an and Islamic oral and written texts. As was demonstrated at the recent
Tartu seminar, Samaritan texts and traditions (unfamiliar to many) have a
contribution to make to the seminar as well. Our work seeks, among other goals,
to facilitate a meaningful and informed dialogue between Jews, Christians,
Muslims and Samaritans—foregrounded in the academic study of the treatment of
characters across texts and traditions—by providing both an open forum at
annual conferences, and by providing through our publications a written
reference library to consult. A further goal is to encourage and provide a
forum in which new scholarly talent in biblical and related studies may be
presented.
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Description: Shortly after the expansion of Muslim
rule in the 7th and 8th centuries CE, Christians, Jews, and Samaritans living
in the Muslim world began to translate their sacred texts– the Hebrew Bible,
the New Testament and the Samaritan Pentateuch– into Arabic. Many of these
translations, from languages such as Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Coptic, have
come down to us in a vast corpus of manuscripts and fragments hailing from
monasteries, synagogues and libraries, especially in the Middle East. Compared
to other translation traditions of the Bible throughout its history, the Arabic
versions in manuscript and later on in print are the most numerous and reveal
an unusually large variety in stylistic and didactic approaches, vocabulary,
scripts and ideologies. Although originally intended for internal consumption
by the different denominations that produced them, the translations were also
quoted and adapted by Muslim writers, who were familiar with many biblical
episodes and characters through the Qur’an. The study of Arabic translations of
the Bible has only recently started to come into its own, but much remains to
be done. We invite papers on the various aspects of the production and
reception of the Arabic Bible outlined above.
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The 17th World Congress of Jewish
Studies: Jerusalem, August 6-10, 2017
https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView2/Agenda/Program?Event=16837&Agenda=11189
Hila
Dayfani
The Relationship between Paleography and Textual
Criticism: Variants Found in the Samaritan Pentateuch that Originate in Graphic
Similarity
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Call for Papers for the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for
Jewish Studies (AJS), to be held December 17-19, 2017 at the Marriott Marquis
Hotel in Washington, DC.
9.
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity
The
division of the history of the Jews and Judaism in the Persian, Greco-Roman,
and Byzantine period invites scholars to think about the larger historiographic
and cultural contexts in which we write and interpret the Jewish past. In
2017 we would be particularly excited by the following themes, and also invite
you to suggest sessions and individual lectures that suit your own interests
and talents:
The
Jerusalem Temple: History, Tradition, and Culture. Ranging from literary
studies to archaeology, cultural history to political history, we invite a
range of new studies on the Temple and the continued engagement with it by Jews
from Cyrus to Mohammed.
Samaritanism
and Judaism in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Recent scholarship and discoveries have
invigorated research on Jewish-Samaritan (and sometimes Christian) relations in
Greco-Roman antiquity.
Josephus:
Between Jewish Studies, Classics, and Religious Studies. This suggestion
broaches the disciplinary perspectives on Josephus, and the ways that
disciplinarity affects and is affected by Josephan scholarship. Questions
might include issues of terminology (Jewish War vs. Judaean War) and larger
theoretical issues.
Association For Jewish Studies
https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/annual-conference/submit-a-proposal/call-for-papers
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Wikipedia images
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_High_Priest
Parchment detail from a 13th century
manuscript of the Samaritan Pentateuch. The inscription at center-page between
the columns is a cryptogram which translates to, "In the year 2650, of the kingdom of
Ishmael in the name of Abi Barkatiah, Sadaktah,
son of Ab." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SamaritanCryptograph.jpg Readable jpg
HOW THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY MISPLACED THE SAMARITANS
by
guest contributor Matthew Chalmers
https://jhiblog.org/2017/06/20/how-the-nineteenth-century-misplaced-the-samaritans/
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Thinking with
Samaritans and Cynthia Baker’s Jew
Matthew Chalmers on Cynthia Baker’s Jew
http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/thinking-samaritans-cynthia-bakers-jew/
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Frumkin
A. The
underground water systems of Ma'abarta – Flavia Neapolis, Israel.
Geoarchaeology. 2017; 00:1–14. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/gea.21637/full
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Publications
Understanding the Pentateuch as a Scripture
by James
W. Watts
Wiley-Blackwell; (October 16, 2017)
English, 328 pages
ISBN-10: 1405196386
ISBN-13: 978-1405196383
Juden –
Heiden – Christen?
Religiöse
Inklusionen und Exklusionen im Römischen Kleinasien
bis
Decius
Hrsg. v.
Stefan Alkier u. Hartmut Leppin
2017. Ca. 420 Seiten.
WUNT I erscheint im
Oktober
ISBN 978-3-16-153706-6
Leinen ca. 150,00 €
ISBN 978-3-16-155029-4
eBook PDF ca. 150,00 €
Die Trias von Juden, Heiden, Christen scheint die religiöse Welt
der römischen Kaiserzeit klar
und überschaubar zu ordnen. Bei näherem Hinsehen zeigt sich
jedoch, dass dieses Modell zu
sehr simpliziert, da es weder den Selbst-
noch den Fremdbeschreibungen in ihrer Vielfalt
gerecht wird, noch den jeweiligen Identitätskonzepten oder den
Mechanismen diverser
Exklusionen und Inklusionen. Der vorliegende Band verdeutlicht
dies am Beispiel
interdisziplinärer Einzelstudien aus Kleinasien, aber auch
anhand konzeptioneller
Überlegungen. Zusammenfassend machen die Herausgeber neue
Vorschläge zur Terminologie.
Inhaltsübersicht
Stefan Alkier/Hartmut Leppin: Einleitung – Juden, Christen,
Heiden?
I. Grundsatzfragen
Tobias Nicklas: Parting of the Ways – Probleme eines Konzepts –
Manuel Vogel: Judentum,
Christentum, Heidentum – Konzeptionelle Probleme der Begrisbestimmungen
– James Rives:
Ritual Practice, Social Power, and Religious Identity: The Case
of Animal Sacrice
II. Fallstudien
Gian Franco Chiai: Christen und christliche Identität(en) in den
Inschriften des kaiserzeitlichen
Phrygiens – Christian Marek: Nochmals zu den
Theos-Hypsistos-Inschriften – Ulrich Huttner:
Christliche Grenzgänger und ihre Inschriften – Martina Böhm: Samaritanische Diaspora im
Imperium
Romanum – Dorothea Rohde: Die religiöse Landschaft einer Hafenstadt im
Wandel:
Das Beispiel Ephesos – Kay Ehling: »Μεγάλη
ἡ Ἄρτεμις Ἐφ εσίων.«
Münzen, Inschriften, Papyri
und Gemmen kommentieren Apostelgeschichte 19 – Alexander Weiß:
Christliche versus
städtische Identitäten? Ein Heptapolit liest die »Sieben
Sendschreiben« der Johannesapokalypse
– Carsten Claußen: Die Identität antik-jüdischer Gemeinden in
Kleinasien im Spiegel von
Rechtstexten – Stefan Alkier: Terminologien kollektiver
Identitäten in der Apostelgeschichte des
Lukas – Jan Bremmer: Jews, Pagans and Christians in the
Apocryphal Acts – Hartmut Leppin:
Justin und der Dialog mit Tryphon – Beobachtungen zum
christlichen Intellektualismus – Walter
Ameling: Smyrna von der Oenbarung bis Pionius –
Marktplatz oder Kampfplatz der
Religionen?
Stefan Alkier/Hartmut Leppin: Ein terminologischer Epilog
Stefan Alkier Geboren 1961; Studium der Ev. Theologie,
Germanistik und Philosophie in
Münster, Bonn und Hamburg; 1993 Promotion; 1999 Habilitation;
seit 2001 Professor für Neues
Testament und Geschichte der Alten Kirche am Fachbereich
Evangelische Theologie der Goethe-
Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Hartmut Leppin Geboren 1963; Studium der Geschichte und
Klassischen Philologie in Marburg,
Heidelberg, Pavia und Rom; 1990 Promotion; 1995 Habilitation;
seit 2001 Professor für Alte
Geschichte in Frankfurt am Main; 2015 Leibnizpreis.
Mohr
Siebeck https://www.mohr.de/buch/juden-heiden-christen-9783161537066
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Biblio
Bonnard,
Christophe (Universite de Strasboug)
Asfår Asāṭīr, le
"Livre des Légendes", une réécriture araméenne du Pentateuque
samaritain : présentation, édition critique, traduction et commentaire philologique,
commentaire comparative (Thesis 2015)
Abstract : Asfår Asāṭīr, the "Book of Legends",
is an Aramaic rewriting of the Samaritan Pentateuch focused on Adam, Noah,
Abraham and Moses, and whose framework is the Targum; it ends with two
Apocalypses. Its language is a rare witness of Late Samaritan Aramaic, in the
10th and 11th centuries. The text brings together traditions from ancient
Samaritan sources, or related to Jewish literature and to Muslim stories of the
Prophets. It shows that Samaritan religion was still in flux in the early
Middle Age. Many of its haggadic traditions became canonical among Samaritans
who attributed this text to Moses.This study proposes to establish a critical
edition of the Aramaic text and to provide a translation taking into account
its Arabic and Hebrew commentaries, so as to make this work accessible to all
French or European researchers.
Florentin, Moshe
[Samaritan Elegies: A Collection of Lamentations, Admonitions, and Poems
of Praising God] Review in Münz-Manor, Ophir, European Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 1, p. 111-114 2017
Fossum,
Jarl E.
The Name of God and the Angel of
the Lord Samaritan and Jewish Concepts of Intermediation and the Origin of
Gnosticism J.C.B.Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tiibingen 1985.
Galbraith, Deane (University of Otago)
Review of Thomas B. Dozeman, Joshua 1–12: A New
Translation with Introduction and Commentary The Anchor Yale Bible, 6B. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2015 in The Bible & Critical Theory Vol. 13,
No. 1, 2017 p.99-102
Matassa, L, J.
Macdonald et al., “Samaritans” in Encyclopedia Judaica, eds. M. Berenbaumand F. Skolnik
(Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007): 718-740.
Lipiński, Edward
Semitic Languages: Outline of a
Comparative Grammar. Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 80. Leuven: Peeters, 1997
Purnomo, Al. (Program Studi Ilmu Teologi, Sekolah Tinggi
Filsafat Driyarkara, Jakarta)
The
Strained Relation Between Samaritans and Jews in the Works of Flavius Josephus Vol 16 No 1 (2017): Diskursus - Jurnal Filsafat dan Teologi
STF Driyarkara, pp 64-90. PDF available
Abstract: The strained relation between Samaritans and Jews as a fruit of
long-term process from the division of the United Kingdom of Israel (ca.
931 B.C.E) became a dominant issue since the post-exilic period and became more
pronounced in the first century C.E. Beside the Old Testament, the story of
their relation which was full of conflict can be traced to extra-biblical
sources. One of them is Flavius Josephus’ works (ca. 70 to 100 C.E),
i.e., Jewish
War and Jewish Antiquities. The root of the conflict is
related to the presence of the Second Jerusalem Temple. The peak of the
conflict is the construction of the Mount Gerizim temple in which some Jews
regarded the adherents of the Samaritan cult as schismatic. The founding of
this rival temple of Jerusalem aggravated the bad relations between Samaritans
and Jews. The destruction of the Mount Gerizim temple by John Hyrcanus was a
crucial incident for their relations. The conflict between Samaritans and Jews
still continued in the Roman period. By historical approach, this study would
setforth the examination of some Josephus’ accounts regarding the historical
process of the estrangement and rivalry between Samaritans and Jews which
resulted in the final split in second century B.C.E.
Reynolds, Randal D. (Luther Seminary)
The Passover Sign: The People See the Prophet-King, Thesis 2017
Verzichová,
Klára (Univerzita Karlova, Husitská teologická fakulta)
Specifika
samaritánského Desatera The specifics of the Samaritan Decalogue
in Židovská civilizace:
Judaismus jako
náboženský system Husitská teologická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy vydáno
v nakladatelství L. Marek v roce 2016
Stadel, Christian
“Quotative
Frames in Samaritan Aramaic.” Zeitschrift Der Deutschen
Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. 167, no. 1, 2017, pp. 47–70. JSTOR,
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