The
Samaritan Update
“Mount
Gerizim,
All
the Days of Our Lives”
July
/ August 2018
Vol. XVII - No 6
In This Issue ·
Marriages ·
4 Shehadeh articles ·
Recent Articles ·
Stereoview ·
Benny’s Tour ·
From the Editor ·
Ebay Photos 4 sale ·
Ebay Books for sale ·
Articles ·
Publications ·
Biblio
2018, the Samaritan Community numbered 810.
In 1786, Samaritan numbered approximately 100
(El-‘Ayyeh)
Future Events
It has been 3656 years since the entrance into the
Holy Land
(Samaritan’s typical calendar)
It
has been 6447 years since the counting of Creation
2018
Samaritan Holy Days
Festival of the First Day of the 7th Month- Tues.
Oct. 9, 2018
The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)- Thurs. Oct. 18, 2018
The Festival of Sukkot- Tues Oct. 23, 2018
Festival of the Eighth Day- Tues. Oct. 30, 2018
[Calculated by: Priest
Yakkiir ['Aziz] b. High Priest Jacob b. 'Azzi – Kiriat Luza, Mount Gerizim]
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New Couples in
Mount Gerizim:
Maayan and Amir b. Nilly [Nawal] married on Wednesday
Evening –
July 17, 2018
Mtar
and Tomer b. Menashe Tsdedaka married on
July 3, 2018
Ruchama and Ben b. Yitzhaq b. Benyamim Yehoshua
Tuesday evening August 28, 2018
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Four New
Articles from Haseeb Shehadeh
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/areconciliationoftins.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/twonabulsianpersons.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/makesuretohonourthedead.pdf
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Recent
Articles
The
last of the good Samaritans by Judith Fein
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180828-the-last-of-the-good-samaritans
A
Real-Life Samaritan Leader Explains What It Means to Be a Good Samaritan
By
Justin Fornal and Mabrook Ishaq
There
are less than 1,000 Samaritans living in the world today. Community secretary
Mabrook Ishaq is one of them. He told us his story.
Living
Monuments: Imagining Ancient Gene Pools in the Middle East
MAY
29, 2018 / ELISE K. BURTON
29/08/2018
Giải Trí/Cuộc Sống
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The Samaritan High Priest as Pedagogue
Stereoscopic cards are housed in a box which looks like two books;
the box is labeled "Journeys in all Lands: Palestine" and credited to
Realistic Travels;
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/holyland/detail.html?id=HOLYLAND_lenkin_1845
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Benny’s 2018
Lecture Tour
Seattle
Washington, USA Oct. 31- Nov. 2
North
Carolina – Nov. 6- 11
New
York City Nov. 11-18
Cincinnati
Nov. 18-25
Teresina,
Brazil Dec. 2-9
Rio
de Janeiro Dec. 9-16
Sao
Paulo Dec. 16-23
If
you wish to contact Benyamim Tsedaka about this Lectures and dates: contact him
here
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Visit https://www.shomronim.co.il/
From the
Editor
In
July, I acquired this writing from Lansing, Michigan, which is very close to
Michigan State University, the location of the Chamberlain Warren Collection.
The verses of Deuteronomy 33:28-29 was written in Samaritan by Ratson Ben
Tsedaka Tsafri (1922-1990), Samaritan author, scholar and the father of
Benyamim and Yefet Tsedaka, themselves scholars and editors of the A.B.
Samaritan News. The Editor
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Photos for
Sale on Ebay
There
are at this time on Ebay.com, photos of the 1961 Passover are for sale from the
Ebay seller called nordicpix located in Reykjavik, Iceland. Back of the photos:
‘Sunday Telegraph 7 May 1961”
Howard
Kent is the name of the back of a few of the photos. Samaritan Charity.-
Vintage Photo. From a Working newspaper archive. Appear to be original photos
of the period. Photos appear to be 3 ¾” x 5 ½”. Each photo appears individually
to for sell for $22.90 plus shipping. But they have a, buy 2, get 1 free
promotion.
Howard Kent (1919 -2005)
‘Howard joined the
News Chronicle becoming chief picture editor before it closed in 1960.
A few months later
he was asked to work on the film Lawrence of Arabia as picture editor and
became our man in Amman for the production team. He was asked to obtain
pictures of the annual Passover Feast of the Samaritans. He set out at midnight
with two female companions to be driven the 80 miles through the desert to film
the feast he had been promised took place at first light.’
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/24/guardianobituaries He
wrote, Single
Bed for Three: A 'Lawrence of Arabia' Notebook. It is unknown if there is mention of the Samaritans in
the book.
Books for
sale on Ebay
There
is also a complete French Newspaper of 8 pages 38x28 cm. The date appears to be
1813-11-8 of the Journal De L’Empire that contains an article on the Samaritans
in Nablus. Link
Samaritan Legends by Ratson Tsedaqa 1965 Ebay
link
Genealogies
Samaritan Priests Taka Tawfiek Samri book 17 Ebay
link
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EXPLOITS
Magazine August 2018 Published on Aug 2, 2018 Jews and the Samaritans Four
Types of Prayer Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast Link
Popular
Mechanics, Feb 1924, p 273. link
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by
Stefan Schorch (Editor)
A
critical edition of the Samaritan Pentateuch is one of the most urgent
desiderata of Hebrew Bible research. The present volume on Leviticus is the
first out of a series of five meant to fill this gap. The text from the oldest
manuscripts of the SP is continuously accompanied by comparative readings, gathered
from the Samaritan Targum and the oral reading, as well as MT, the DSS, and the
LXX, creating an indispensable resource for Biblical research.
Print
Length: 251 pages
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Publication
Date: July 2018 Language: English, Hebrew
Samaritan
Languages, Texts, and Traditions
Series:
Studia Samaritana 8Studia Judaica 75
Ed.
by Schorch, Stefan
The
volume collects studies in the linguistic, exegetical and historical traditions
found in Samaritan texts or pertaining to our understanding of the Samaritans,
from antiquity to the present. Apart from the Hebrew Pentateuch, a special
focus is laid on sources in Samaritan Arabic and Samaritan Aramaic.
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Publication
Date: Sept. 2019, 330 pages, English,
The
Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans
Series:
Studia Samaritana 10
Ed.
by Kartveit, Magnar / Knoppers, Gary N.
Aims
and Scope:
Discoveries
on Mount Gerizim and in Qumran demonstrate that the final editing of the Hebrew
Bible coincides with the emergence of the Samaritans as one of the different
types of Judaisms from the last centuries BCE. This book discusses this new
scholarly situation.
Scholars
working with the Bible, especially the Pentateuch, and experts on the
Samaritans approach the topic from the vantage point of their respective fields
of expertise. Earlier, scholars who worked with Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
studies mostly could leave the Samaritan material to experts in that area of
research, and scholars studying the Samaritan material needed only sporadically
to engage in Biblical studies.
This
is no longer the case: the pre-Samaritan texts from Qumran and the results from
the excavations on Mount Gerizim have created an area of study common to the
previously separated fields of research. Scholars coming from different
directions meet in this new area, and realize that they work on the same questions
and with much common material. This volume presents the current state of
scholarship in this area and the effects these recent discoveries have for an
understanding of this important epoch in the development of the Bible.
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Publication
Date: July 2018, 214 pages English
The
Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives (Studia
Samaritana) Hardcover – December 17, 2018
by
Jan Dusek (Editor)
The
volume contributes to the knowledge of the Samaritan history, culture and
linguistics. Specialists of various fields of research bring a new look on the
topics related to the Samaritans and the Hebrew and Arabic written sources, to
the Samaritan history in the Roman-Byzantine period as well as to the
contemporary issues of the Samaritan community.
·
Series: Studia Samaritana (Book 11)
·
Hardcover: 250 pages
·
Publisher: De Gruyter (December 17, 2018)
·
Language: English
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Books by
Benyamim Tsedaka
A Complete Commentary On The Torah
Understanding
the Israelite-Samaritans
The first publication in English - concentrated information on
the Israelite Samaritans - From Ancient to Modern by Benyamim Tsedaka
See
his selection of Samaritan writings
https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/books/
Also
Subscribe to the A.B. The Samaritan News
See
details at https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/samaritan-newspaper/
Selected
Modern Hebrew Texts with Exercises
By
(author) : Haseeb Shehadeh
Scholars'
Press (Feb. 20, 2018)
This
textbook is an attempt to offer a comprehensive representation of Modern Hebrew
to the student of Hebrew language and culture. It consists of three major
parts.
Seeking out
the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan
Literature (200 BCE - 400 CE)
Series:
Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume: 32
Author:
Ze'ev Safrai
Publisher:
Brill
Publication
Date: 24 May 2018
ISBN:
978-90-04-33482-3
https://brill.com/abstract/title/34004?rskey=Xtrq3L&result=1
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by
Abraham Tal (Editor)
Tibåt
Mårqe 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. Tibåt Mårqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and
poet, Mårqe.
This
publication of Tibåt Mårqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze’ev
Ben-Hayyim, Tibåt Mårqe, 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.
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Publication
Date: January 15, 2020, 700 pages English
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Interesting
selections
The
Athenaeum No. 2379,
May 31, 1873, 695-696
‘A
Samaritan inscription, in large mural characters, has recently been discovered
on a stone about a mile from Gaza. Particulars regarding the stone have not yet
been received, but a squeeze was sent by Mr. Charles Hamilton to the Rev.
Dunbar Heath. The stone has been read by the latter gentleman, by Mr. Vaux,
Prof. Palmer, and others, and there seems to be but little doubt of its being a
genuine inscription, taken from Deuteronomy iv. 29-31. Its date has not yet
been determined, but steps have been taken by the Palestine Exploration Fund,
on the information given them by Mr. Heath, to secure, or at least to examine
fully into all the circumstances connected with the stone. We hope to publish
an additional note on this “find” very shortly.’
Note 2: The Samaritan Peutateuch
reads Gerizim here for Ebal. A new-found manuscript from Egypt, now at Giessen,
apparently a translation from the Samaritan, reads here iv' Apyapi(1μ. This
is the har, "mount," of the Samaritan version and of their
Targums. It also is Eupolemus' reading. Cf the 'Ap-yapi(i11' of
Alexander Polyhistor. See Revue de l' Histoire des Religions, 1911, II, p.
269.
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Recent
Doctoral Dissertations 2018
Dr.
Alina Tarshin: Verb Morphology in Samaritan Aramaic Advisor: Prof. Moshe
Florentin (The Chaim Tosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology, The
Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
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Biblio
Bagir,
Muhammed Ali
'Günümüz
Sâmirîlerinde Dinî Hayata Dair Bazı Uygulamalar / Some Practices About
Religious Life in Modern Samaritans' in Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018, 151-181
Franklin,
Norma
Review
of:- The Archaeology of the Ostraca House at Israelite Samaria: Epigraphic
Discoveries in Complicated Contexts by Ron E. Tappy in: Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
and Heritage Studies Penn State University Press Volume 6, Numbers 1-2,
2018 pp. 148-151
Gaster Moses
Harrison
and Sons, 1901.
Heckl, Raik
“The
Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah as a Testimony for the Competition Between the
Temples in Jerusalem and on Mt. Gerizim in the Early Years of the Seleucid Rule
over Judah,” in: Kartveit, M.; Knoppers, G.N. (Hg.): The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans (StSam
10), Berlin/Boston 2018, 115-132
Hensel,
Benedikt
Das
JHWH-Heiligtum am Garizim: ein archäologischer Befund und seine literar-und
theologiegeschichtliche Einordnung, in: Vetus Testamentum 68/1 (2018), 73-93.
‘Ethnic
Fiction and Identity-Formation: A New Explanation for the Background of the
Question of Intermarriage in Ezra-Nehemiah.’ In:
Kartveit, M./Knoppers, G.N. (Hg.), The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans
(Studia Samaritana 10/STJ 104), de Gruyter: Berlin/Boston 2018, 135-150
Marsh,
Bradley J. Jr. (St. Cross College)
Early
Christian Scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch: A Study in Hexaplaric
Manuscript Activity. Thesis summary 2016
The
Samareitikon, Carl 49, and the κατα
Σαμαρειτων Marginalia in
CODEX M Handout for IOSCS session P19-328 at SBL 2016
Schiffman,
Lawrence
Quoted
in: "השומרנים
וקומראן (The Samaritans and Qumran),"
A. B. - The Samaritan News (Fall, 1996), 61-62.
Schorch,
Stephan
'Dissimilatory
Reading and the Making of Biblical Texts,' in Empirical Models Challenging Biblical
Criticism, eds. R. Person & R. Rezetko (SBL), 2016, 109-127
Is
a qibla a qibla? Samaritan Traditions about Mount Garizim in Contact and
Contention. In Near and Middle Eastern
Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: 1935-2018, Edited
by Sabine Schmidtke, Gorgias Press, NJ, 2018, 95-100.
Smith, Henry
B. Jr
‘The
Case for the Septuagint’s Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11,' in The Proceedings of the International
Conference on Creationism. v8, article 48, 2018, 117-132
Tov, Emanuel
“A
New Understanding of the Samaritan Pentateuch in the Wake of the Discovery of
the Qumran Scrolls,” in Proceedings of the First
International Congress of the Société d’Études Samaritaines, ed. Abraham Tal
and Moshe Florentin (Tel-Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1991), 293–303.
“Textual
Harmonization in the Five Books of the Torah: A Summary,” in The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans,
ed. Magnar Kartveit and Gerald Knoppers, STDJ 104, STS 10 (Berlin: De Gruyter,
2018), 31–56.
Uehlinger,
Christoph
'und
wo sind die Götter von Samarien?» Die Wegführung syrisch-palästinischer
Kultstatuen auf einem Relief Sargons II' Hõrsabãd/Dür-Sarrukïn: M. Dietrich &
I. Kottsieper Hg., … Jan 1, 1998, 739-776
Young, Ian
The
'Archaic' Poetry of the Pentateuch in the MT, Samaritan Pentateuch, and
4QExod-c in Abr-Nahrain 35
(1998) 74-83
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