“Mount Gerizim,
All the Days of Our Lives”
March / April
2017
Vol. XVI - No 4
In This Issue ·
Samaritan Synagogue ·
Ori Photos ·
Auction ·
5 Shehadeh articles ·
Samaritan Posts ·
Publications ·
Call For Papers ·
Future Publications ·
Of Interest ·
Links ·
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 First Month 3655 - Monday
Evening, March 27, 2017
Passover Sacrifice - Monday
Evening between the sunsets [7:11 PM] - April 10, 2017
The Festival of Passover/ Festival
of Unleavened Bread Tuesday April 11, 2017
The First Day of the Counting of
the Omer Sunday April 16, 2017
The Last Day of the Festival of
Unleavened Bread/ First Pilgrimage Monday April 17, 2017
The Second Month 3655 - Tuesday
Evening, April 25, 2017
The Third Month 3655 - Thursday
Evening, May 25, 2017
The Second Passover for those that
were impure on the first Passover Evening May 10, 2017
The Day of the Sinai Assembly
Wednesday May 31, 2017
[Calculated
by: Priest Yakkiir ['Aziz] b. High
Priest Jacob b. 'Azzi – Kiriat Luza, Mount Gerizim]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The New
Samaritan Synagogue has opened on Mount Gerizim
See the
great phots taken by Ori Orhof.
Also see 2017 Passover & opening evening
of the New synagogue; Photos by Ori Orhof
Also take notice of the reconstructed Tannurs in his photos.
All high definition images, a must view! https://www.flickr.com/photos/oriorhof/albums ~~~~~~~~~~~
May
9, 2017, 4:00 PM GMT Jerusalem, Israel, Live
Auction
Description: Samaritan manuscript, five books of
the Torah (codex). Nablus, [19th century]. Exceptionally handsome handwriting,
on wide-margined high-quality paper, written by the priest Shlomo ben Amram ben
Shlomo ben Toviah Halevi ("from the Kehat family"). Colophon at the
end of every book. This volume is from the collection of Chacham R. Yitzchak
Binyamin Yechezkel Yehudah (1863-1941), educator, translator, bookseller and
Orientalist who focused on the history of the Jewish people and Arabic culture.
Chacham Yehudah lived in Darmstadt, Germany at the beginning of the 20th
century, where he traded in books and manuscripts in Hebrew and Eastern
languages. In 1906 he immigrated to Cairo, where he opened a book shop for
classical and religious Arabic texts near the al-Azhar mosque. He was renowned
as the premier expert on Arabic literature in the region, and he often assisted
Moslem scholars as well as Orientalists residing in Cairo. He published a
number of books including "The Western Wall", (Jerusalem, 1929),
"Fables of the East", (3 volumes, Jerusalem, 1932-1990), and others.
In addition to Hebrew and Arabic, Chacham Yehuda was fluent in Ladino, Persian,
Yiddish, German, Turkish, English and French. His son-in-law, Professor Yosef
Yoel Rivlin attested that he was "amazingly proficient in Oriental studies
and literature, and one of the greatest Jewish researchers." This volume
includes a stamp from his bookshop in Cairo, and his signature (from
Jerusalem). At the end of the volume, Chacham Yehudah bound five pages from prayer
books, as well as a page in his own handwriting, in which writes several verses
and discusses the custom of Sephardic Jews, (and later the Rashash), to recite
these verses whenever three Torah Scrolls are removed from the ark on Shabbat.
"The ancient custom of Saragossa was to recite these verses whenever three
Torah scrolls were removed from the ark, and the Rashash followed this
custom." Several glosses in the handwriting of Chahcam Yehudah (pencil
writing) appear in the margins of the first chapter of Sefer Bereshit. [428]
pages, 15.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and stains, primarily to the first
pages, last pages and endpapers. Several stains in the margins. Original dark
red leather binding, typical of the time period, with embossed decorations and
leather clasp, damaged. Tears to the spine. Rare. Provenance: Collection of
Yitzchak Binyamin Yehudah.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/five-books-of-the-torah-codex-samaritan-manus-7574C22965
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/samaritan-manuscript-prayers-for-sukkot-and-sim-46E431C9D3
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/six-volumes-samaritan-manuscripts-torah-porti-7574EDDA9C
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Five new
articles by Haseeb Shehadeh
Professor Shehadeh has shared his recent articles with us. Thank you
Hasseb!
Continue reading: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/themiracleoftheovenandthesheepinawartha.pdf
Continue reading: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/theendlessmiracleofthepassoversacrifice.pdf
Continue reading: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/an_assault_in_awarta.pdf
Continue reading: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/awartasmiracles.pdf
Continue reading: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/thehighpriestphinhas.pdf
~~~~~~~~
The Samaritans and the Samaritan community
on YouTube
Also see badawiya samri tubetube video
~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gentlemen. Children of respectable lsạmryh
community.
Every year and you are a thousand good
Invites you to the high priest range lsạmryh
Abdullah Descriptor to participate with the introduction of the Holy Bible to
new synagogue from synagogue, big day tomorrow, Friday at five pm
Dear Ada
The High Priest Abdul Ben Asher, invite you to
attend the temple. The Torah books of the new temple on Friday, 7.4.2017 at
five in the evening
The ritual starts at temple
~~~~~~~
Interior of the New Gerizim Synagogue a few days before the
opening
Photo posted by Roey Altif (Facebook) March
21, 2017
‘Today was the first time
in a temple, the new divine mountain hargryzym, just warms my heart to see the
power is in there, many more! Amen, huge kudos to all who participated in the
holy handcraft.’
[Photo shopped from 2 photos] Facebook Posts of the new synagogue from a drone on 4-4-2017 by Âshęr Mĺń
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scroll
photo by Amit Marhiv, March 3, 2017 at the Samaritan Synagogue on Mount
Gerizim (Facebook Post)
‘On the occasion of the first month
of the Hebrew year blessed to take this opportunity to congratulate all the
sons of my highest congratulations and greetings to this blessed occasion
wishing peace and safety to all the peoples of the region, and God bless us our
Lord that we are enjoying full Health and wellness.’ (Facebook Post of Ziv Altif, March 27, 2017)
~~~~~~~~~~~
Publications
Understanding the Israelite Samaritans: From Ancient to Modern by Benyamim
Tsedaka
CARTA JERUSALEM, Sep 1, 2017 - Religion - 40 pages
|
ISBN |
9652208884,
9789652208880 |
Understanding the Samaritans opens a window into the fascinating history
of the Samaritan community. The Samaritans are a small group that claims
descent from the ancient Israelites, that is, from the biblical Kingdom of
Israel (as opposed to Judah), and claims to continue the Northern Israelite
lineage and heritage. The Samaritans are associated with one of the most famous
New Testament parables, known as "The Good Samaritan." The Gospels
also tell of Jesus' encounter with a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Like
Jews, Samaritans base their religion on the Torah. Their holy site is at Mount
Gerizim, near Shechem, in the heart of the region of Samaria (hence their
name), rather than in Jerusalem.
‘Specifika samaritánského Desatera The specifics of the Samaritan Decalogue’
By Klára Verzichová Univerzita Karlova, Husitská teologická fakulta
Židovská
civilizace: Judaismus jako
náboženský systém
2016, pp.9-19
Looking Backward: A
Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,
by Michael Lesy, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. April 2017 ISBN 978-0-393-23973-7 10 × 10.4 in
/ 256 pages
See review and some
of the pages
I believe there is just the one Samaritan Photo in the book, yet with
this one photo, more people will be exposed to the Samaritans, I hope.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Call For
Papers
AJS
49th Annual Conference
December 17-19, 2017
Marriott Marquis 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:
2. 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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
9th Enoch Seminar. From tôrāh to Torah:
Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity -
18-19-20-21-22-23/06/2017, Camaldoli (Italy)
Breakfast
9:00-10:30
1st session Hebrew Bible
11:00-12:30
2nd session Samaritan Pentatuech
CALL.
07.03.2017: [Panel 3 at SBL Annual Meeting 2017] Aramaic Studies - Boston (MA, USA)
FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 07/03/2017
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 18-19-20-21/11/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: (Boston, Ma, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Ute
Possekel (Harvard University) Tawny Holm (Pennsylvania State University)
INFO: web - call - upossekel@verizon.net
tholm@psu.edu
CALL: The Aramaic Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature
invites papers on any aspect of Aramaic language, texts, and culture.
Topics may include Targumim, Qumran Aramaic texts, Syriac biblical versions and
exegesis, Samaritan papyri, and Elephantine Aramaic, among others. In addition
to one open session, we are planning three thematic sessions for 2017 and
especially invite papers on these subjects. One thematic session will focus on
the topic of language transfer and contact (the relationship of Aramaic to
Greek, Iranian languages, etc.).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Future
Publications
Ed. by Schorch,
Stefan
ISBN: 978-3-11-032454-9
Product
Type: Books Format: eBook (PDF)
Also available as Hardcover, Print/eBook, eBook (EPUB)
Ed. by Schorch,
Stefan
ISBN: 978-3-11-040410-4
Product
Type: Books Format: eBook (PDF)
Also available as Hardcover, Print/eBook, eBook (EPUB)
Tibĺt Mĺrqe, The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary
Ed. by Tal, Abraham Approx. 700 pages; Language:
English, Hebrew
Tibĺt
Mĺrqe is a collection of midrashic compositions, which, in the main, rewrites
the Pentateuch, expanding its sometimes laconic presentation of events and
precepts. Most of it aims at providing the reader with theological, didactic
and philosophical teachings, artistically associated with the passages of the
Torah. Here and there poetic pieces are embedded into its otherwise prosaic
text. Tibĺt Mĺrqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and
poet, Mĺrqe.
This publication of Tibĺt Mĺrqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze’ev
Ben-Hayyim, Tibĺt Mĺrqe, a Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem 1988),
based on a 16th century manuscript. Though he recognized the precedence of an
earlier manuscript, dated to the 14th century, Ben-Hayyim was compelled to
prefer the former, given the fragmentary state of the latter. He printed
its fragments in parallel with the younger one, to which his annotations and
discussions chiefly pertain. With the recent discovery of a great portion of
the missing parts of the 14th century manuscript, this edition endeavors to
present the older form of the composition. The present book may be relevant to
people interested in literature, language, religion, and Samaritan studies.
The Land Beyond:
A Thousand Miles on Foot Through the Heart of the Middle East
Leon McCarron, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. Aug 29, 2017 [See
article: Exclusive extract
from 2017 RGS Neville Shulman Challenge Award winner Leon McCarron’s ‘The Land
Beyond’]
~~~~~~~~~~
Of Interest
‘Twenty eight new Dead Sea Scrolls fragments have been sold and are now sitting in three US institutions awaiting publication.’
‘This fragment is at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. It preserves part of Deuteronomy 27:4-6, a passage in which the lord commands that an altar be built for him at Mount Gerizim. A preliminary study of the fragment was written and published online in 2010’
Read the full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4375502/28-new-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-fragments-sold-US.html
At the Florida
Political Science Association Annual Meeting Saturday, April 1, 2017,
Valencia College, Orlando, Florida, Yara
Asi, University of Central Florida read the work, ‘The Samaritans of the
West Bank: well-being, Citizenship, and Politics on Mount Gerizim.’
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
From Creation to Sinai: Jewish, Christian, and Quranic Traditions in Interaction March 5-8, 2017
Samaritan and Christian Exegesis of Genesis Chair: Adiel Schremer (Bar-Ilan University)
Concepts of Creation in the Early Samaritan Liturgical Poetry: Stefan
Schorch (Martin Luther Universität Halle Wittenberg)
Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research: John Bergsma, Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, USA A ‹Samaritan› Pentateuch? The Implications of the Pro-Northern Tendency of the Completed Torah
(2144) Még egy zsidó templom https://www.antalffy-tibor.hu/?p=5917
~~~~~~~~~~
Links
Tens of
thousands celebrate Pesach in Samaria, ‘The most
popular tourist sites were the National Park on Mount Gerizim, the ancient
Samaria National Park, and the State Terrace Festival.’ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/228078
Pesah / Na svetoj planini počelo obilježavanje najvećeg jevrejskog praznika
Diferenças entre sinagogas samaritanas e judaicas
by Ariel Haddad | mar 28, 2017 | Arqueologia, Cięncia, Judaísmo, Samaritanismo
https://www.portaldatora.com.br/diferencas-entre-sinagogas-samaritanas-e-judaicas/
Samaritans attend traditional Passover sacrifice near West Bank by Xinhua/Fadi Arouri
Samaritans celebrate Passover by Issam Rimawi- Anadolu Agency
Samaritans
Gather on Mount Gerizim during Their Annual Passover Pilgrimage in Latin American Herald Tribune
Samaritans, Iconsonic journey to the discovery of a millenary culture Iconsonic opera by Yuval Avital
Tyler
Gathro (Photos & film)
~~~~~~~~~~
Biblio
BAĞIR, Muhammed Ali
Sâmiriler: Köken Sorunu ve Günümüz İsrail Devleti’ndeki Yansımaları in Milel ve Nihal, 13 (2), 101-128
Barkay, Rachel
Samaritan Sarcophagi of the Roman Period From the Land of Israel
Bednarski, Marek
Obraz Samarytan w okresie rzymskim i ich relacje ze wspólnotą żydowską w świetle dzieł Józefa Flawiusza, w: Veritati et Caritati 4 (2015), s. 37-78
Bernasconi, Rocco
‘Tannaitic “Israel” and the Kutim,’ in N. Belayche and S. C. Mimouni (eds), Entre lignes de partage et territoires de passage: les identités religieuses dans les mondes grec et romain. «Paganismes», «judaďsmes», «christianismes», (Collection de la Revue des Études Juives 47, Leuven: Peeters),2009, pp. 365-92.
Bonnar, Christope
Cosentino, Augusto
Damsma, Alinda
Review of Jan Dušek. Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mt. Gerizim and Samaria between Antiochus III and Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012), in Strata: The Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 30 (2012), pp. 128-131
Dusek, Jan
Mt. Gerizim Sanctuary, Its History and Enigma of Origin (HeBAI 3/1, 2014, p. 111-133)
Finkel, Joshua—Brooklyn, New York.
"Jewish, Christian, and Samaritan Influences on Arabia." In The Macdonald Presentation Volume, New York: Books for Libraries Press, Inc. 1968 (reprint from 1933 Princeton University Press 1933)p. 145-166
Among the sooner - criteria for evaluating the time of the anonymous
Samaritan Aramaic liturgical poems
", our tongues total (Second Edition), pp 279-302" HEBREW
"An Unknown Samaritan Poem of the Type FATIḤA", Samaria, Samarians, Samaritans – Studies on Bible, History and Linguistics (ed. J. Zengeller), KG, Berlin/Boston, 2008, pp. 203-215.
“Embedded Midrashim in Samaritan Piyyutim”, Jewish Quarterly Review 96 (2006), pp 525-539
“The alternation u / o, diphthongs, pataḥ furtivum and the 3m. s. Pronominal suffix in Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic versus Tiberian Hebrew”, Journal of Semitic Studies 54/2 (2009), pp. 365-380
“The Hebrew Dictionary of Gesenius and the Study of Samaritan Hebrew in Past and Present”, in: Hebräishce Lexicographie und biblische Exegese:Das Werk fon Wilhelm Gesenius (eds. E. J. Waschke and S. Schorch), BZAW (der Gruyter: Berlin)
“The Object Suffixes in Samaritan Aramaic and the Ways they are attached to the Verb”, Abr-Nahrain 29 (1991), pp. 67-82
Review - The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah: First English Translation Compared with the Masoretic Version. Edited and translated by BENYAMIM TSEDAKA and coedited by SHARON SULLIVAN, The Journal of Theological Studies, 2015
Late Samaritan Hebrew, in: Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. G. Khan, Brill, Leiden 2013
Review - A. Tal, Samaritan Aramaic, Aramaic Studies 14 (2016), pp. 67-79
Review - A. Tal, A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic, Leiden 2000, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 67 (2004), pp. 198-206 (review article)
Samaritan Hebrew: Biblical, in: Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. G. Khan, Brill, Leiden 2013
Samaritan Pentateuch, in: Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. G. Khan, Brill, Leiden 2013
“Tawḥīd – The Language and Structure of Unknown Samaritan Poems”, Hebrew Union College Annual 77 (2006), pp. 167-178
“Traditions are Born: A Medieval Samaritan Poem Takes on a New Form”, Journal of Jewish Studies 58 (2007), pp. 105-120
Undermining the internal passive system and the status we act and admire
the tradition of the Samaritans and sages, "our language
well (Tsn"b), pp 201-211" HEBREW
Himam Mu'afi
Samirîler Yahudiler ve Tevrat 2015
Iserlis, Mark
Thin-section Analysis of Samaritan Oil Lamps and Incense Bowl.
Justnes, Ĺrstein
Forfalskninger av dřdehavsruller
Om mer enn 70 nye fragmenter – og historien om ett av dem (DSS F.154; 5 Mos 27,4–6) [Forgeries of Dead Sea Scrolls, If more than 70 new fragments - and the story of one of them (DSS F.154; 5 Mos 27.4 to 6)] in Theological Journal 01/2017 (Volume 5)
ABSTRACT: In the last fifteen years, more than 70 new Dead Sea scrolls fragments have surfaced on the antiquities market. The fragments come with epic stories of origin, but are of uncertain provenance. Over 90% of these are probably forgeries. This article is particularly concerned with one of the fragments, DSS F.154 (Deut 27:4–6, also called the “HarGarizim-fragment”), and will demonstrate how a forgery is introduced, accepted and eventually becomes part of the dataset.
Kosiński, Rafał
‘Samarytanie w Cesarstwie Rzymskim w drugiej połowie V wieku (Samaritans in the Roman Empire in 2nd Half of 5th Century)’ in Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego MCCCXVIII. Prace Historyczne, zeszyt 138, pod red. Artura Patka, Kraków 2011, pp. 25-39.
Lehnardt, Andreas
(Review) Lehnardt_2016_Review of Gary N. Knoppers Jews
and Samaritans, in_ThLZ (2016)
‘Die Taube auf dem Garizim, Zur
antisamaritanischen Polemik in der rabbinischen Literatur,’ in Historische und literarische
Wechselwirkungen zwischen biblischen und samaritanischen Traditionen /
Historical and Literary Interactions between Biblical and Samaritan Traditions
2012
Lim, Sung Uk
Long, Phillip
[Review] Reinhard Pummer, The Samaritans: A Profile.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2016.
Merrony, Mark W.
Socio-economic aspects of the Byzantine mosaic pavements of Phoenicia
and northern Palestine (University of Oxford, Thesis 2002).
Morabito, Vittorio
The Samaritans in Sicily and the Inscription in a Probable Synagogue in Syracuse. in New Samaritan Studies, Société d’études samaritaines III & IV (Ed. A. D. Crown and L. Davey), Mandelbaum Publishing, The University of Sydney, 1995, 237 – 258
Münz-Manor, Ophir
(Review)
M.
Florentin - Samaritan Elegies: A Collection of Lamentations, Admonitions, and
Poems of Praising God - European Journal of Jewish Studies in European
Journal of Jewish Studies 11 (2017):
111–114
Salihoglu, Mahmut
Samiriler (Samaritans) (in Turkish)
Schiffman, Lawrence
Quoted in: (The Samaritans and Qumran)," A. B. - The Samaritan News (Fall, 1996), 61-62.
“The Samaritans in Amoraic Halakhah,” in Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman (eds. S. Secunda and S. Fine; Leiden: Brill, 2012) 371-89.
"The Samaritans in Tannaitic Halakhah," Jewish Quarterly Review 75 (1985), pp. 323-350.
Tigchelaar, Eibert
‘The material variance of the Dead Sea Scrolls: On texts and artefacts’ in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 10 June 2016
Tov, Emanuel
The Development of the Text of the Torah in Two Major Text Blocks 2016
Urien, Fanny
Verzichová Klára (Univerzita Karlova, Husitská teologická fakulta)
‘Specifika samaritánského Desatera The specifics of the Samaritan
Decalogue’ in Židovská
civilizace: Judaismus jako
náboženský system 2016, pp.9-19
Zsengellér, József
Origin or Origianlity of the Torah. The Textcritical
Value of the Samaritan Pentateuch (2009)
Samaria, Samarians, Samaritans Studies on Bible, History
and Linguistics (2011)
Samaritan
Rewritings: The Toledot in Samaritan Literature (2014)
The Samaritan Day of Atonement (2012)
“To be or not to be . . .” An Historical Interpretation
of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus’ Antiquities (2011)
Was He a Bad Samaritan? Ascensio Isaiae and the Early Jewish and Early
Christian Anti-Polemic (2010)
~~~~~~~~~
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 2017 All Rights Reserved