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Authoritative introduction to the Samaritan tradition from antiquity to the present
Most people associate the term "Samaritan" exclusively with the New Testament stories about the Good Samaritan and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Very few are aware that a small community of about 750 Samaritans still lives today in Palestine and Israel; they view themselves as the true Israelites, having resided in their birthplace for thousands of years and preserving unchanged the revelation given to Moses in the Torah.
Reinhard Pummer, one of the world's foremost experts on Samaritanism, offers in this book a comprehensive introduction to the people identified as Samaritans in both biblical and nonbiblical sources. Besides analyzing the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, he examines the Samaritans' history, their geographical distribution, their version of the Pentateuch, their rituals and customs, and their situation today. There is no better book available on the subject.
Most people associate the term "Samaritan" exclusively with the New Testament stories about the Good Samaritan and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Very few are aware that a small community of about 750 Samaritans still lives today in Palestine and Israel; they view themselves as the true Israelites, having resided in their birthplace for thousands of years and preserving unchanged the revelation given to Moses in the Torah.
Reinhard Pummer, one of the world's foremost experts on Samaritanism, offers in this book a comprehensive introduction to the people identified as Samaritans in both biblical and nonbiblical sources. Besides analyzing the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, he examines the Samaritans' history, their geographical distribution, their version of the Pentateuch, their rituals and customs, and their situation today. There is no better book available on the subject.
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Index of Subjects
Note: Page numbers in italic represent illustrations and photographs.
Aaron b. Manir, 186
Abbahu, Rabbi, 131
ʿAbbasids, 122-23, 146-48, 246
ʿAbd al-Samiri, 162
ʿAbd al-Wahhab b. Ibrahim, 146
ʿAbdel b. Asher b. Maṣliaḥ, 167, 298
Ab Gillūga, 101, 240
Ab Ḥisda of Tyre. See Abu l-Ḥasan al-Ṣuri
Abisha (great grandson of Aaron), 159, 196, 245
Abisha Scroll, 166, 196-98, 197, 264
Abraham ha-Qabaṣi, 186
Ab Sakwa (Murjan) b. Asʿad b. Ismaʿil al-Danfi, 247
Abu Ḥarb al-Mubarqaʿ al-Yamani, 123
Abu Isḥaq Ibrahim, 236, 249
Abu Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allah al-Manṣur, 146
Abu l-Barakat (Abi Barakata) b. Saʿid al-Buṣri al-Suryani, 235-36
Abu l-Fatḥ al-Samiri al-Danfi (Abu l-Fatḥ b. Abu l-Ḥasan). See Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abū l-Fatḥ al-Sāmirī al-Danafī; Kitāb al-Tarīkh of Abu l-Fatḥ
Abu l-Ḥasan al-Ṣuri (Ab Ḥisda of Tyre, Abu l-Ḥasan of Tyre), 225, 233-34, 236, 240
Abu l-Ḥasan of Tyre. See Abu l-Ḥasan al-Ṣuri
Abu l-Ḥasan ʿAli al-Harawi (ʿAli of Herat), 150
Abu Muḥammad ʿAli b. Aḥmad b. Ḥazm al-Andalusi, 181; Book of Religions and Sects, 181
Abu Muḥammad Musa al-Hadi b. al-Mahdi, 146-47
Abu Saʿid b. Abi l-Ḥasab b. Abi Saʿid, 225
Abu ʿUbaidah b. al-Jarraḥ, 143
Acts. See Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts
Alexander Jannaeus, 116
Alexander Polyhistor, 219
Alexander Severus, Emperor, 132, 244
Alexander the Great, 49, 54, 59-62, 81, 84-86, 120
Amoraic period, 69
ʿAmram b. Itamar, 152
ʿAmram b. Salama, 163, 244
ʿAmram b. Ṭabia, 251
ʿAmram Dare (Ḍarir), 133, 195-96, 239
Amulets, 112-15; contemporary making and selling of, 167, 301, 301; inscriptions, 114-15, 176, 215; material evidence of Caesarea settlements in third and fourth centuries, 176
Anastasius I, Emperor, 139
Antiochus III the Great, 130
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 49, 50, 60-61, 86-87, 130
Antiochus VII Sidetes, 86
Antoninus Pius, 77, 131
Apoc...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- i. The Identity of the Samaritans
- ii. Samaritans in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament?
- iii. The Samaritans and the New Testament
- iv. Samaritans in Jewish Writings of Antiquity
- v. Archaeological Excavations
- vi. Samaritan Sects
- vii. The Samaritans in History
- viii. Geographical Distribution and Demography
- ix. The Samaritan Pentateuch
- x. Samaritan Literature
- xi. Samaritan Rituals and Customs
- xii. The Samaritans Today
- xiii. New Challenges
- Bibliography
- Index of Sources
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects