Samaritan Languages, Texts, and Traditions

Collected Studies

Stefan Schorch

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110324549
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ancient Religion

The volume collects eighteen studies authored by specialists of various fields. The contributions gathered in this volume mostly originate in lectures delivered at the 8th Congress of the Société d'Etudes Samaritaines (Erfurt, 2012). In these studies, specialists of various fields deal with various aspects of Samaritan languages, especially Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic, with central Samaritan texts, mostly the Samaritan Hebrew Pentateuch, the Samaritan Aramaic Targum, as well as medieval Samaritan exegetical texts in Arabic, and also with traditions relating to the image of the Samaritans, as emerging from the New Testament and Rabbinic literature, to Samaritan theology and to Samaritan genealogy, and with magical traditions as found in Samaritan amulets, and with the contribution of Samaritan traditions to the literary history of the Pentateuch. The volume provides thus a multifarious reflection of the current status quaestionis in Samaritan studies.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Part 1: Languages
• The Treatment of Gutturals in Samaritan Hebrew: A Contingent Linguistic History of the Diffusion of a Dialectal Trait
• Identification of Active and Passive Qal Participles in Samaritan Aramaic
• Samaritan Aramaic phraseology or hallmarks of individual style?
• La langue de l’Asāṭīr dans l’évolution de l’araméen samaritain
• Part 2: Texts
• Wenn die Zukunftshoffnung in die Vergangenheit gerückt wird
• Die Frage nach Ebal, Garizim und dem erwählt werdenden Ort im Deuteronomium
• The Samaritan Pentateuch
• An Additional Leaf from MS M of the Samaritan Targum
• Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s Kitāb fī bāb al-qibla and its Qaraite Refutation
• Two Samaritan Interpretations of Gen 6:3
• Die Hexaemeron-Tradition bei Juden und Samaritanern
• Part 3: Traditions
• “On both sides of the borderline”
• Phinehas and Samaria
• Concepts of Exile and Return in Samaritan and Jewish Literature
• Das Gottesbild der Samaritaner
• „Rabbi Meʾir sah einen Samaritaner und fragte ihn…“
• Religious Jewelry or Amulets?
• Samaritans and Genealogy
• Index