“Mount
Gerizim,
All
the Days of Our Lives”
March / April 2019
Vol. XVIII - No 4
In This Issue ·
Festivals ·
5
Shehadeh articles ·
Passover
Articles ·
New
Tannoors ·
Make
Matzah ·
Old
Article ·
Benny
Tour ·
Links ·
New
Articles ·
Books ·
New Publications ·
Biblio
2018, the Samaritan Community number 810.
Future Events
It has been 3657 years
since the entrance into the Holy Land which happened on the Sixth Month of the Hebrew
Year.
(Samaritan’s typical calendar)
2019
The First Month 3657 - April 4, 2019
Passover Sacrifice - April 18, 2019
Feast of Unleavened Bread – Apr 19-25, 2019
Second Passover even May 18, 2019
Festival of Weeks June 3- June 9, 2019
Festival of the first day of the Seventh Month -Sept.
29, 2019
Day of Atonement – Oct. 8, 2019
Festival of Sukkot – Oct. 13, 2019
Festival of the 8th Day – Oct 20, 2019
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In total, the Samaritans sacrificed 59 sheep
and one goat according to Benny.
See Photos taken
by Ori Orhof of the Pilgrimage
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKT1AMrMP7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QfHt9DqTMk
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Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/growing_a_beard_as_a_sign.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/the_sinners_closed_throat.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/a_curse_of_a_poor_man.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/on_the_manuscript_kitab_alhulf.pdf
Continue
reading at https://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/did_the_nazarene_pastor.pdf
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Passover
Articles
PHOTO
ESSAY
Tiny Samaritan
community marks Passover sacrifice as numbers grow
Biblical
ritual held annually at West Bank mountaintop ceremonial ground provides
participants young and old with hope for future of ancient community
By
MIKE SMITH 19 April 2019 (with
photos by Jaafar
Ashtiyeh/AFP)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tiny-samaritan-community-marks-passover-sacrifice-as-numbers-grow/
https://www.france24.com/en/20190418-tiny-samaritan-community-marks-passover-sacrifice-numbers-grow
Traditional Passover sacrifice held near West Bank city
of Nablus
Source: Xinhua| 2019-04-19 http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/19/c_137991130.htm
Samaritans take part in pilgrimage for holy day of Passover
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/25/c_138009500.htm
الطائفة
السامرية
بنابلس تحيي
عيد الفسح السامري
The Samaritan community in Nablus
celebrates the feast of the Samaritan al-Fath
By Hamdi abu dhair: 170
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/pg/hamdiabudhair1/photos/?tab=album&album_id=589164318234592&__tn__=-UC-R
Tiny
Samaritan community marks Passover sacrifice as…
http://en.brinkwire.com/news/tiny-samaritan-community-marks-passover-sacrifice-as/
Palestine’s Samaritan community celebrates Passover holiday on Mount
Gerzim in Nablus
http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=WB0Tvsa110181589551aWB0Tvs
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New Tannoors
being constructed fon Mount Gerizim
Image by
Haanan Altif (3-15-2019)
The
tannoors used
for the Passover Sacrifice are increasing from the 6 existing to 20 total. The
tannoor is used for spit-roasting the Passover Sacrifice.
Image above from Guy Yehoshua (Facebook, March 28)
A recent Jerusalem Newspaper Article
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Samaritan
Noman Yosef Samri Bakes Matzoh, image posted by Haya Saloom (on Facebook April
17, 2019)
How to make
Samaritan Matzah
By
Benyamim Tsedaka
White
flour 2 kg=5 pounds; 8 glasses of water, half glass of salt
Then
make a cake forms from the dough with wet hands.
All
of these do with wet hands from a little basin full of water. Wet your hands
from it.
Let
one side stay on the hot cover for 10 seconds then flip it to the other side
for another 10 seconds and take it off and put it on a clean piece of fabric to
let it be cold.
The
same process will be done with the rest of round "cakes".
Then
fold every matzah to half then to quarter then to eighth. Put them in a straw
basket. Enjoy!
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Ms. Codex 1649 -
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th
century-11th century - [Kāmil al-sināʻah al-tibbīyah]
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren/pageturn.html?id=MEDREN_9963001003503681&
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From the
Editor
The
image to the left is from The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
07 Sep 1956, Fri page 37.
I
have been working on an article and been trying to locate a Samaritan
manuscript that was given to Joseph Wolff in 1822. Any help would the great as
to its location!!!!
See
and download the New
Online
Samaritan Bibliography 2018
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Chester
Beatty Digital Collection
Samaritan
Pentateuch
Object
Information
Object
no.: Heb 751
Object
name: Codex
Title:
Samaritan Pentateuch
Object
category: Manuscript
Collection:
Hebrew collection
Production
date: 1225 (622 AH)
Dimensions:
356 mm x 330 mm x 120 mm (height x width x depth)
Material:
Parchment (material) Ink (material)
Language:
Samaritan (language)
See
the great image at https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/object/Heb_751/2/
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2019 ANNUAL
MEETING
San
Diego, CA
Meeting
Begins: 11/23/2019 - Meeting Ends: 11/26/2019
Call
for Papers Closes: 3/6/2019
ARAMAIC
STUDIES
|
|
Description: The Aramaic studies section is intended to provide a
forum for scholars interested in various aspects of Aramaic language. Previous
paper topics have included aspects of the Targumim, Qumran Aramaic, Peshitta,
Samaritan papyri, and Elephantine Aramaic.
Call for papers: The Aramaic Studies Section invites papers on any aspect of
Aramaic language, texts, and culture. We welcome presentations on Targumim,
Qumran Aramaic texts, Syriac language and literature, Samaritan papyri,
Elephantine Aramaic, magical texts, and other topics. For the 2019 meeting we
are also planning a joint session with SBL's International Syriac Language
Project on the current state of Biblical Aramaic lexicography, as well as an
independent thematic session on women, gender, and family in Aramaic.
https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting.aspx
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Lecture: Oxford
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Programme for Trinity Term 2019
May
15th
11:45
- 12:45 Stefan Schorch
(Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) The Role and the Value of the
Samaritan Versions for the Textual History of the Samaritan Pentateuch
https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OCHJS-Programme-Trinity-2019-_compressed.pdf
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Links
Ura Iturralde
Documentary/
Photographer
The
Last Samaritans
https://uraiturralde.visura.co/last-samaritans
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New Articles
The
End of the World as They Knew It? Jews, Christians, Samaritans and End-Time
Speculation in the Fifth Century by Ross
S. Kraemer
Chapter
· April 2019
In
book: The
End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality, pp.227-250
Conference
Paper · April 2019
Conference:
University of Babylon/college of art, At IRAQ- Babylon city
Does
Religious Diversity Work? Samaritans and Their Religious “Others” in
Contemporary Nablus by Julia Droeber
Chapter
· October 2018
In
book: The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives,
pp.245-266
Between
Samaritans and Karaites: Abraham Firkovich and His Perception of Samaritanism
by Golda Akhiezer
Chapter
· October 2018
In
book: The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives,
pp.235-244
Linguistic
convergence between The Karaites Grammar School and the Samaritan school in the
middle Ages by Nihad Haji
Article
· April 2018
Text
study of similarity between The Pentateuch Samaritan and the Septuagint by Nihad Haji
Conference
Paper · April 2016
Conference:
the Conference of Dialogue of Civilizations and International Cultures, the
second arbitrator organized by the Faculty of Arts, Tafileh Technical
University in Jordan for the period 26/28 April 2016, At Tafileh Technical
University in Jordan
Cite
this publication
Article
· April 2018
Fear
of Images Iconophobia and Iconoclasm among Jews and Samaritans in Late
Antiquity by Noa Yuval-Hacham
Article in Ikon
11:239-248 · January 2018
Those
who require ‘[…] the burning of incense in synagogues are the Rabbinic Jews’:
Burning incense in synagogues in commemoration of the temple by Abraham O. Shemesh
Article
(PDF Available) in HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
73(3) · August 2017
Abstract:
This article focuses on the burning of incense in synagogues subsequent to the
destruction of the temple, in commemoration of the incense formerly used in the
temple rites. We hear about the implementation of this custom in Samaritan and
Rabbinic synagogues only several centuries after the destruction of the
Samaritan and Jewish Temples. The Samaritans still burn incense in their
synagogues at certain times, but among Rabbinic Jews the custom came to an end,
probably in the Middle Ages. Burning incense in the synagogue was a point of
controversy between the Karaites and the Rabbinic Jews. The Karaites argued
that acts involving burning incense and lighting candles are only appropriate
for the Temple and their status is like that of sacrifices or offerings that
are limited to this complex. It may have been that the rabbinic custom
discontinued as a result of the strict Karaite objections to this custom for
concern of idolatry. In fact, burning incense in commemoration of the Temple
indeed ceased, but this practice remained in evidence until the 19th century
for purposes of conveying respect or on festive occasions.
~~~~~~~~
Old Article
The
Samaritan Passover solemnities were held on Sunday, May 4th, at the
traditional high place near the summit of Mt. Gerizim. Because of the rainy
weather and the difficulty of obtaining curfew passes, a relatively small number
of non-Samaritans witnessed the ceremony. A group of American Jews spent the
evening with the Samaritans, singing songs with them during the interval
between the dressing of the Passover lambs and the feast at midnight. The
Samaritan high priest, Abishah ben Pinchas, was the most gracious to all the
visitors, and permitted them to examine the ancient Pentateuch, which is kept
in his tent during the Passover season.
(The
Living Church, Vol. CXIV, No. 23, June 8, 1947, Page 11)
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June,
10 - Milano, Bibliothka Ambrosiana
June
16 - Rome, Vatican Barberini Library
June
23 - Sicily, Seminarians on the Israelite Samaritans
June
30 - Paris, Bibliotheca National + Awarding the Samaritan Medal for
Humanitarian Achievements to Rabbi Gabriel Hagai
July
6 - London, British Library
Benyamim
Tsedaka
will be happy to meet seekers of the Israelite Samaritans and Samaritan Studies
in each place. You can contact him at sedakab@yahoo.com
A Complete Commentary on the Torah
based
on the Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah as it has been delivered for
the past 125 generations, since it was originally written by Mooshee Ban
’Aamraam [Moses ben ‘Amram] the Prophet of all prophets.
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/
Book Proposal
Also
see the proposal for the Samaritan Cookbook https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/books/samaritan-cookbook/
~~~~~~~~~~~
9:15.
Welcome
Steven
Fine, Director, YU Center for Israel Studies
3:15-5:15.
Session 3
Chair: David Lavinsky, Yeshiva University
Laura Lieber, Duke University, Feasting, Fasting, and
the Bounty of the Land: Rituals of Sukkot in Samaritan and Rabbinic Antiquity
https://www.yu.edu/cis/news-events
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New
Publications:
Ed.
By Jan Dusek
Series:
Studia Samaritana 11 Studia Judaica 110
Oct. 2018
xiv, 341 pages, 20 Fig. Language:
English
Aims and Scope
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.
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
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 TheSamaritanUpdate.com May / June 2018 16 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.
Publication
Date: July 2018, 214 pages English
Parallel
Samaritan and Masoretic Torah
by
Marco Enrico de Graya
Paperback:
690 pages Publisher: Lulu.com (December 15, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10:
0244742626 ISBN-13: 978-0244742621 Product
Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.4 x 8.3 inches
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News Article
Metachen
Recorder (New Jersey) Nov. 12, 1936, page 3
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Marin Sanuto
(1322 C.E.) has mentioned that the Jews and the Samaritans show the tomb of
Phinehas in Awerta (Awarta). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Sanuto_the_Younger
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Biblio
Bergsma, John
A
"Samaritan" Pentateuch? The Implications of the Pro-Northern Tendency
of the Common Pentateuch
Beihefte zur
Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte, 2019
Building
on the work of the late Gary Knoppers and his provocative re-reading of the
Pentateuch from a Samarian (i.e. northern Israelite) perspective, this paper
surveys other macroscopic narrative elements from Genesis through Deuteronomy,
such as the locations dignified by patriarchal cultic activity, and the
valorization of Judah and Joseph and their descendant tribes in the narrative. The pentateuchal portrayal of these issues is
then contrasted with the approach of the Book of Jubilees, a second-century BCE
Judean rewriting of Genesis and Exodus. The
contrast helps highlight the fact that the Pentateuch, even in its Masoretic
form, lends itself better to the legitimation of Samarian/Samaritan claims than
to Judean ones. This undeniable but overlooked fact makes it extremely
difficult to maintain that the Pentateuch is the redactional product of the
post-exilic Jerusalem priesthood, whose interests would have been strongly tied
to the authorization of the Jerusalem Temple.
Boušek Daniel
'The
Story of the Prophet Muḥammad's Encounter with a Samaritan, a Jew, and a
Christian: The Version from Abū l-Fatḥ's Kitāb
al-Tārīkh and Its Context' in Jan Dušek (ed.), The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and
Linguistic Perspectives (Studia Samaritana 11, Studia Judaica 110), Berlin:
De Gruyter., 2018
Campbell,
Stephen D.
Review
of Samaritan Pentateuch Leviticus
Center
for the Research of Biblical Manuscripts and Inscriptions, 2019
Gzella,
Holger
Review:
A. Tal, Samaritan Aramaic, Bibliotheca Orientalis
LXXXV No. 3-4, mei-augustus 2018 374-380
Ireton, Sean (University
of Kent)
‘The
Samaritans: Strategies for Survival of an Ethno-Religious Minority’ in CBRL
2003
Newsletter
of the Council for British Research in the Levant p. 11-12.
Joosten,
Jan
Proofs of an article published in: The Samaritan
Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls (edited by Michael Langlois; Contributions
to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 94; Leuven: Peeters, 2019), 313-325.
Stefan Schorch
The
Samaritan parts of Ms. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Codex 1649 in
the context of Samaritan manuscript culture (Video Lecture)
Ms. Codex 1649 of the Library of the University of
Pennsylvania is a collection of several texts, mainly in Judeo-Arabic. Apart
from these texts, however, several Samaritan msnucripts were bound into the
volume, specifically:
- Single leaves from a Samaritan Chronicle, written
in Samaritan Neo-Hebrew, dating to the early 20th century.
- A full version of "Ṯubūt ad-daula
aṯ-ṯāniya" ("The certainty of the Second
Kingdom"), a tractate on Samaritan eschatology composed by the Samaritan
theologian Ġazāl ad-Duwaik (13th century) in Arabic and Samaritan
Hebrew.
- A introductory prayer in Arabic, attributed to the
Samaritan theologian Abu l-Ḥasan aṣ-Ṣuri (11th century).
Vainstub,
Daniel
“Two
Samaritan Amulets in The Biblical Lands Museum, Jerusalem”, Bible Lands e-Review 2019/S3 Bible Lands e-Review 2019
van der Horst, Pieter W.
The
Ancient Samaritans and Greek Culture Religions 2019, 10, 290.
Warren,
Charles
Underground
Jerusalem: An Account of Some of
the Principal Difficulties Encountered in Its Exploration and the Results
Obtained. With a Narrative of an Expedition Through the Jordan Valley and a
Visit to the Samaritans. London: E Bentley and son 1876
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