“Mount Gerizim,
All the Days of Our
Lives”
September
/ October 2017
Vol. XVII - No 1
In This Issue ·
Orhof Photo ·
Auction ·
5 Shehadeh articles ·
Samaritan book ·
Benny Knowledge ·
Facebook Post ·
Call for papers ·
Publications ·
From the Editor ·
Links ·
Recent Articles ·
New Articles · 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 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 (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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Once again Ori Orhof has captured the
Samaritans in their environment during their Holy Days. See his photos
organized photo albums at his main page.
Wonderful
images for any book or article!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/oriorhof/albums
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October 24, 2017, 5:00 PM AST Jerusalem, Israel
Est: $3,000 -
$4,000 Page Link Sold $1600.00
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5 New
Articles from Haseeb Shehadeh, The University of Helsinki
Thank
you professor Shehadeh for the new articles that you have been so gracious to
share!
Continue
reading at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/seven_fold_in_return.pdf
Continue
reading at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/voices_in_holon.pdf
Continue
reading at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/three_stolen_torahs.pdf
Continue
reading at: https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/Jacob_al-Shalabi.pdf
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A Book
Containing the History of the Samaritan Sect and the Rituals of Their Religion
Contributed
by Qatar National Library
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/17600/
Download
at: https://dl.wdl.org/17600/service/17600.pdf
{The
name at the back of the book appears to be William James Guerrier 1892. I have
been unable to locate any information on him.]
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What is the meaning of to be Israelite-Samaritan?
This is the aim of my posts in Facebook about the
Israeilte-Samaritan tradition, history and culture, to spread the clear
knowledge of life based simply on the Torah on one hand' and on the other hand
to integrate in the life reality and not to ignore other faith believes. I
respect the choice of anyone to believe whatever making him/her complete with
themselves.
Missionary is forbidden from the Torah but if someone decides to be Israelite Samaritan, being circumcised, keeping the
Sabbath directly as it commanded in the Torah, reading the Torah in its
original text kept by the Israelite Samaritans, learning the Ancient Hebrew
that only the Israelite Samaritans kept it without change; keeping the laws of
purity of the human and family, keeping the festivals in its time in Israelite
Samaritan Calendar, keeping the law of dietary [Not to mix meat with milk];
first in the list of being Hebrew and being honest and nice to one another - if
he needs advice - I will be the first to help him/her. Just go to https://www.facebook.com/ben.sedaka
It is important to follow the true information based on real
facts and not imagination. For information also go to our web site: israelite-samaritans.com
Benyamim
Tsedaka/ Head Advisor to All Israelite-Samaritan Communities in the
world
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Ayman Nobani posted 6 photos on his Facebook page Oct.
29, 2017
Photos
by Ayman Nobani
Call For
Papers
Helsinki,
Finland
Meeting
Begins: 7/30/2018
Meeting
Ends: 8/3/2018
Call For Papers Opens: 10/18/2017
Call For Papers Closes: 2/14/2018
Requirements for Participation
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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.
Call for papers: We plan the
following joint sessions of Biblia Arabica (SBL), The Bible in Arabic (EABS)
and IQSA members. A. Two invited sessions. 1. “The Arabic Commentary
Literature: Between Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Bible”. 2) “Biblical
materials in Qur’anic commentaries (Tafsir) - Islamic elements in Jewish and
Christian commentaries in Arabic.” B. Open session(s). We invite proposals on
“Approaches to Translation and Interpretation”. Papers dealing with any aspect
of Arabic Bible translation as outlined above in the General agenda will be
considered. While the emphasis has hitherto been on the Middle Ages, we also
encourage discussion of printed pre-modern and modern translations.
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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.
Call for papers: Biblical
literature, the literatures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and related
literatures all place an importance on literature as an important medium for
disseminating important “truths” to those with whom the writers wish(ed) to communicate.
To Moses, Paul, and Muhammad have been ascribed three anthologies that flow
from a similar world-view. Through the three (plus) bodies of literature, one
notices a similar theme (not necessarily style) that demonstrates an
association by writers who have inherited a specific, progressive Middle
Eastern world-view. That world-view has, of course, been informed by neighbors
of the core groups of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in a most positive way.
Several authors or scribes have been identified as making this traditional
literature available to us: Moses, the Hebrew prophets, the writers during the
Persian and Greek periods (including the contributors to the New Testament and
related literature), and the dictated version of the Prophet Muhammad’s Qur’an.
These we intend to explore in great detail.
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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.
Call for papers: At the 2018 meeting in Helsinki the research
group Bible in Arabic will focus on two broad topics: 1. Commentary Literature;
2. Translation and Interpretation. The sessions will be held jointly with The
Biblia Arabica Consultation (SBL) and members of the International Qur’anic
Studies Association (IQSA). We plan to have two invited panels and additional
open sessions. The titles of the invited panels are: (1) The Arabic Commentary
Literature: Between Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Bible and (2)
Biblical materials in Qur’anic commentaries (Tafsir) / Islamic elements in
Jewish and Christian commentaries in Arabic. For the open sessions on
Translation and Interpretation we invite contributions on Approaches to
Translation and Interpretation. Papers dealing with any aspect of Arabic Bible
translation will be considered. While the emphasis has hitherto been on the
Middle Ages, we also encourage discussion of printed pre-modern and modern
translations.
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Description:
This research group is attentive to the core of the Book of Deuteronomy
(Deuteronomy 12— 26/28). We want to explore the internal coherence of the legal
prescriptions and to take a close look at the world that is imagined to be
regulated by them. We also want to explore how this legal core relates to the
notion of ‘Israel’ presented in the framework of the book. The unit will
continue investigating the apparent tension between the utopian character of
the society that is imagined in these ‘laws’ and their focus on down-to-earth
politics and economics, which was the topic of our first meeting 2017. Relevant
topics are: - Why was Deuteronomy created? - The nature of ‘Israel’ in the
book, especially the relation between the society that appears in the core
legislations and the ‘All Israel’ of the frame. - The cultic integration of
both Judah and Samaria: the adoption of the cult of the ‘god of Israel’ within
Judah and its possible connection with local religious practices and Iron-age
cults of the two kingdoms. - Issues related to the book’s further application
and authorization in the Yehud and Samarian communities: Why did Deuteronomy
have audiences in both Samaria and Yehud/Judea who considered themselves to
belong to Israel?
Call
for papers: For 2018, there will be one session of invited papers and one
open-call session. The topic for both will be: Why was the book of Deuteronomy
created? Why was it desirable to give authority to (another) collection of
legal stipulations in the book (in addition to the Exodus legislation)? We
invite both literary and socio-historical perspectives on this question. All
papers should relate to the core of Deuteronomy. In particular, we welcome
papers that take note of the difference between the core and the frame of the
book. One productive angle on the question of why Deuteronomy was created would
be to determine what the different emphases are within the
""legal"" materials in Deuteronomy vs Exodus. This makes a
lens to address why Deuteronomy is presented to supersede the earlier code, and
we invite papers accordingly. To enhance the benefit of congenial exchange
during the conference, drafts will be circulated in advance among all the
presenters and to interested members of the audience (please request drafts from
the chairs in the weeks preceding the conference).
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Recent
Publication
by Leon
McCarron (Author)
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Future
Publication
by
Stefan Schorch (Editor)
To
be published: March 2018
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter
Language:
Hebrew
ISBN-10:
3110402874
ISBN-13:
978-3110402872
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Past
Publication
Die Thesen über die Ursprünge der Samaritaner (German
Edition) (German) Paperback – May 13, 2015
by
Lirer Ganna (Author)
Publisher:
AV Akademikerverlag (May 13, 2015)
Language:
German
ISBN-10:
3639842944
ISBN-13:
978-3639842944
Product
Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
In
der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte gab es kaum ein anderes Volk (wohl nur mit
Ausnahme der Juden), um dessen Herkunft und Entstehungsgeschichte so viele
Mythen und Theorien existieren, wie die Samaritaner. Bis heute leben die
Anhänger dieser Religion in Israel als eine weitgehend geschlossene Gemeinschaft.
Wie die Juden hat dieses Volk in seiner jahrtausendlangen Geschichte im Zuge
der zahlreichen Eroberungen Israels und Judäas - zunächst durch Alexander den
Großen und später das Römische Imperium -, sowie durch die Kreuzzüge oder die
Besetzung Palästinas durch das Osmanische Reich, viel Leid erfahren müssen. Die
Fähigkeit der Samaritaner, ungeachtet der gesellschaftlichen, politischen und
kulturellen Umbrüche, die im Laufe der letzten drei Tausend Jahre um sie herum
stattfanden, ihre Identität, Religion und Traditionen zu bewahren, übt auf
viele Menschen eine Faszination aus.
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From the
Editor
I
received an interesting email recently from Jeremy Lupton. He sent a couple
links. The first link concerns; ‘Records of the Earls Cowper of Cole Green
House and Panshanger, in Hertingfordbury and Hertford, their families,
households and estates in Hertfordshire and elsewhere, 1251 – 1966,’ found in the UK National Archives.
LIDDELL, H[enry] G[eorge] [Dean of Christ Church
College, Oxford. Concerning Jacob Shellaby] - page 9.(1 item, 13 Jun 1888
Christ Church, Oxford)
“SHELLABY, Jacob [Social. Letter is
addressed to Earl Cowper] - page 58. 1 item, 25 Nov 1890 Fitzroy Square”
from ‘Autograph letters scrapbook compiled by Countess Cowper DE/P/F587 C1868-C1910 Volume 1.’
And:
General correspondence [no ref. or date]
Contents:
[The following letters were found lying loose in the front of
Countess Cowper's album of autograph letters (see DE/P/F587). This album also
contains letters to Earl Cowper from H M Queen Victoria (page 1), Robert Arthur
Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (page 14), Michael Hicks-Beach
(page 15), William Holman Hunt (page 27), William Blake Richmond (page 27),
George Frederick Watts (page 28), Clifford Lloyd (page 54), Jacob Shellaby
(page 58) and Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, Baron Wantage (page 117) - for
further details see DE/P/F587.
I also located the Edward Burnett Tylor
Papers, PRM Manuscript Collections). University of Oxford
Using a list originally compiled by Sandra Dudley, subsequently
amended by Petch to take account of improved information, the following list of
people associated with the Tylor collection was prepared. Note that those items
which appear to have been retained by Tylor as part of his private collection
up to his death are marked by words ‘[Private EBT
collection]’:
58. Jacob esh. Shellaby - via Alfred Harris, sent to EBT by
1917, donated by Anna Tylor 1917 [Private EBT collection]
Also
the new Museum of the Bible, a 430,000-square-foot building, will open at 300 D
Street, Washington D.C. will open on November 17. 2017. They will be displaying
a Samaritan Torah scroll dating from the 12th
century A.D. https://www.museumofthebible.org/
Also
volume XVI of the Samaritan Update can be seen and saved from this link: https://shomron0.tripod.com/PDFvolumes/Samaritan_Update_vol_XVI.pdf
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Links
Thinking
with Samaritans and Cynthia Baker’s Jew
Title: Brethern or
Strangers?
Subtitle: Samaritans in the Eyes of Second-Century B.C.E. Jews
Author(s): BOURGEL, Jonathan
Journal: Biblica
Volume: 98 Issue: 3 Date: 2017
Pages: 382-408
Abstract : The process leading to the ultimate estrangement between Jews and
Samaritans is commonly regarded as having occurred in the second century B.C.E.
This paper aims at giving an outline of how the Samaritans of that time were
conceived by the Jews and to determine whether the latter were already
perceived as a well-defined alien group. The picture that emerges from the
Jewish sources is remarkable in that not only were there divergent opinions
among the Jews in regard to the Samaritans, but also that the borders between
the two communities were still blurred and even in parts overlapped each other.
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Recent News
Articles
Benyamim
Tsedaka, israelita samaritano, “trovatore” e uomo di Pace
LUNEDÌ 23 OTTOBRE, 2017 By di Claudia Lo Presti
A colazione
con Benyamim (Benny) Tsedaka
GIOVEDÌ 19 OTTOBRE, 2017 By di Suzana Glavaš
Middle East’s
Samaritans link Muslims and Jews
ByMichele
Chabin | October 17, 2017
Same article, different titles:
Middle East’s
Samaritans link Muslims and Jews
By
Michele Chabin October 18, 2017
Neither Muslim nor Jew: Samaritans in the Middle East
Meeting the
world’s most mysterious sect: the Israelite Samaritans iNews
Samaritans
Gather Atop Mount Gerizim in Israel to Hold End of Harvest Prayers
Latin
American Herald Tribune
Samaritans
prepare for celebration of Sukkot at Mount Gerizim
Source:
Xinhua| 2017-10-03 16:05:28 Editor: Yurou
Palestine’s Samaritans make pilgrimage to Mt. Gerizim
By Qais
Abu Samra, Anadolu Agency
Vor hundert Jahren gab es noch 140 von ihnen. Heute haben die
rund 800 Samaritaner gute Überlebenschancen. Sie sehen sich als Brückenbauer
zwischen Juden und Palästinensern.
Ulrich
Schmid, Kiryat Luza 15.11.2016, 10:00 Uhr
Israël :
Samaritains cherchent âme sœur
Publié le 22 septembre 2017 à 16h53
Par
Barthélémy Gaillard et Simon Henry - à Kiryat Luza In Jeune Afrique
Samaritains
cherchent âme sœur…..
24 septembre 2017 koide9enisrael- Coolamnews And
Koi de 9 en
Israel
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New Articles
Zsengellér,
József
‘The
Samaritan Diaspora in Antiquity’ in Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae Volume 56, Issue 2
Abstract: This paper
discusses the problems and state of the Samaritan diaspora situation in
Antiquity. It was difficult for contemporaries to distinguish between Jews and
Samaritans therefore it is more difficult to decide today whether a diaspora
was Jewish or Samaritan. Even so, there are regions of the Eastern
Mediterraneum where a Samaritan diaspora can be defined, though no history of
any of them can be sketched.
http://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/068.2016.56.2.2
Stadel, Christian
‘Quotative
Frames in Samaritan Aramaic’ in Die
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG) volume: 167,1
Jg. 2017 Link
Heckl, Raik
LAMMOPFER ZUM
PASSAHFEST – DIE GLAUBENSGEMEINSCHAFT DER SAMARITANER
At
Institut für Israelogie 2014
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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Biblio
van Gelderen,
C.
"Samaritaner
und Juden in Elephantine-Syene" in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 15. Jahrgang Nr.8 (August
1912) 337-344
van
Hoonacker, Albin
Une
communauté judéo-araméenne à Éléphantine, en Égypte, aux 6e et 5e siècles av.
J.-C:
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University press 1915
‘De
Fontein Jakobs en het Tooverboek’ in Het Christelijk Zondagsblad Leiden A. W.
Sijthoff 1863, (Christelijk
zondagsblad voor het Nederlandsche volk, Volume 2,) Joz XXIV- 15p.
200-3
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