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DNA and other evidence suggests the early history of the Hebrew Old Testament concerns two entirely separate people united by monotheism and military conquest. The first, taking the name of Israelites from Israel (Jacob), the grandson of... more
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      Abrahamic ReligionsIslamic HistoryAncient HebrewEthiopia
The Samaritans: A Biblical People celebrates the culture of the Israelite Samaritans, from biblical times to our own day. An international team of historians, folklorists, a documentary filmmaker and contemporary artists have come... more
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      ArchaeologyJewish StudiesMedieval StudiesIsrael/Palestine
The study of the Samaritan version of Saadya Gaon’s translation of the Pentateuch (the tafsīr), mainly based on MS London BL OR7562, shows that a Saadyan version in Arabic Characters was adopted by the Samaritans and adapted to the... more
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      Jewish StudiesSemitic languagesHebrew LanguageArabic Language and Linguistics
2 Kgs 17:24–41 uses the phrase yere YHWH in two distinct ways and that the tension between the two different meanings of this phrase is an essential part of the narrative. This phrase can refer to cultic worship and also to exclusive... more
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      ExileSamariaAmbiguitySamaritans
The common belief among the general public, the military and many governments is that UFOs/UAPs are interstellar vehicles arriving here from other star systems. Is there evidence, however, that some mysterious objects appearing in our... more
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      Native American StudiesGeologyPlasma PhysicsIsrael/Palestine
Turkish translation of the book "The Samaritans: A Profile"
Translator: Muhammed Ali Bağir
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Ugarit - Proto Sinaitic - Paleo Hebrew - Cursive - Ashuri - Greek
Ugarit, Proto Sinai, Ibrani Kuno, Samaritan, Ibrani Persegi / Ashurit, Yunani
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      GreekUgariticBiblical HebrewSamaritans
The “Lexicon of Samaritan Hebrew According to the Samaritan Pentateuch Tradition” is a joint project of Moshe Florentin and Stefan Schorch. The project aims at the creation of a scholarly dictionary of the Samaritan Hebrew dialect which... more
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      Semitic languagesHebrew LanguageComparative Semitic LinguisticsHebrew Bible
The Gerizim composition found in the Samaritan text of the Ten commandments in Exod 20 and Deut 5, according to medieval manuscripts, presents a deliberate scribal attempt to stress some main points of Pentateuchal hermeneutics,... more
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      Textual CriticismQumranic StudiesSecond Temple JudaismTen Commandments
This study proposes a new approach to an ongoing scholarly discussion. How can the relationship among the encounters at wells narrated in the Pentateuch (Genesis 24 and 29, Exodus 2) and the New Testament (John 4) be defined? Does the... more
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      IntertextualityGospel of JohnExodusSamaritans
The use of inscribed amulets by Samaritans is documented from the Byzantine period up to the present time. Taking into account the amulets which have come to light since the publication of the catalogue of early amulets in Revue Biblique... more
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Jewish Circumcision during Hellenistic Period, analysis of 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees, the Sephora's enigma has been solved and I discovered that the Priest opposed to the Master of Justice in the Qumran commentary on Habaquq is indeed a... more
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      Male CircumcisionQumranSamaritans1 Maccabees; 2 Maccabees
This is a collection of online internet links for the Samaritan Bibliography 2018
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      Samaritan StudiesSamaritan PentateuchSamaritansSamaritan Hebrew
From antiquity to the present, Samaritans and Jews have lived as close neighbors in the Land of Israel and in nearby diaspora communities. It is difficult to imagine Judaism without Samaritanism, or Samaritanism without Judaism—the two... more
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      Jewish StudiesJewish HistorySecond Temple JudaismJewish historiography
Budapest, 22th-27th July 2022
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      Oriental StudiesSamaritan StudiesSamaritan PentateuchConference
The color close-ups of pottery from Samaria has been printed in black & white. If you wish to get these photos in color please approach me.
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      Pottery (Archaeology)Ancient GlassTheban TombsSamaria
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      New TestamentGospelsHistorical JesusGospel of John
Qumran Chronicle 21 (2013): 103-16.
Article begins on page 15.
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      Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman)Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion)Qumranic StudiesMessianism
This is the new introduction (uncorrected proofs) to The Prophet-King by Wayne A. Meeks, first published as NovTSup 14 (Brill, 1967), now in paperback as The Johannine Monograph Series, Vol. 5 (Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2017--series editors... more
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      ReligionChristianityComparative ReligionSociology of Religion
For Wellhausen, the exile marked a decisive turning point in the construction of Israelite collective identity: Israel went into exile as a people and returned as a religious sect. This assessment led to the definition of post-exilic... more
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      Collective IdentityPersian PeriodAncient IsraelSamaritans
At John 4:42, the Samaritans oddly recognize Jesus as “savior of the world”, a pagan phrase. But this can be understood as their switching away from Simon Magus, a Samaritan who was later deemed to be the “forerunner of all the heresies”.... more
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      JudaismGospel of JohnSamaritans
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      Second Temple PeriodSamaritansSecond Temple Literature
“The Discovery of Samaritan Religion” was the title of an article published in 1972 by one of the leading scholars of Samaritanism in the twentieth century, John Macdonald of the University of Glasgow. At first glance, it may appear that... more
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      Samaritan StudiesSamaritans
MA Thesis (Hebrew)
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      Roman Palestine (Archaeology)Roman Near EastSamaritan StudiesSamaria
The studies composing this book are written by twenty nine scholars from USA, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Netherlands, Italy, Israel, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium and Armenia. They explore the transmission of apocrypha in... more
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      GnosticismHagiographyArmenian StudiesEthiopian Studies
The purpose of this article is to investigate the Tannaitic attitude towards the Samaritans (Kutim) through the analysis of a number of references where the Kutim are associated, analogically or contrastively, either to Israel or to the... more
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      Jewish IdentityMishnahSamaritansTosefta
KONRAD SCHMID Wer sich als Bibelwissenschaftler zu den Samaritanern äußert, befindet sich derzeit in einer paradoxen Lage: Auf der einen Seite steht der vergleichsweise dürftige Befund in der Hebräischen Bibel zu den Samaritanern, auf der... more
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      SamaritansHebrew Bible/Old Testament
Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah express a different approach to the future of Israel to that given in the Former Prophets. First, the nature and the dating of this part of the Hebrew Bible are discussed, suggesting the end of the 5th and the... more
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      Archaeology of Ancient IsraelHebrew BibleChronicles-Ezra-NehemiahHebrew Bible and Ancient Near East
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      Samaritan StudiesBible in ArabicSamaritan PentateuchSamaritans
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      Archaeology of Ancient IsraelBiblical StudiesHebrew Bible and Ancient Near EastNeo-Assyrian studies
This book is the third volume dedicated to the excavations at Mount Gerizim, which began in the early 1980s and lasted for 25 years. The book describes thousands of coins that have been discovered in the excavations at Mount Gerizim, from... more
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      SamaritansLead Coins
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      SamaritansAbimelechShechem (Tell El-Balatah)
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      Late Antique ArchaeologyDeath and Burial (Archaeology)Archaeology of Ritual and MagicSamaritans
According to ancient Jewish and Christian sources, Samaritans in ancient times didn't believe in an Afterlife. Kitab al-Ma'ad by Abu al-Hasan al-Suri (11th century) represents the moment in which Samaritans started believing in an... more
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      Afterlife studiesSamaritans
1 7 8 -1 7 6 ' ‫מ‬ ‫ע‬ , ‫ח‬ " ‫ע‬ ‫ש‬ ‫ת‬ ‫ן‬ ‫ס‬ ‫י‬ ‫נ‬ ,1 6 7 ‫ה‬ ‫ר‬ ‫ד‬ ‫ת‬ ‫ק‬
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      PiyyutSamaritan StudiesMedieval Hebrew Literature, Genizah Research, PiyyutSamaritans
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      EthosMasadaSamaritansOpportunism
bi bunun bir imtihan olduğunu belirterek İsrailoğulları'nın ona tapmasına engel olmaya çalışmıştır (Ta.ha 20/90-94) Batılı araştırmacılar, Tevrat'ın aslı gibi Kur'an'ın da ilah! kaynaktan geldiği gerçeğini göz ardı edip kıssanın Kur'an ve... more
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The evolution of biblical texts has been described mainly from the perspective of textual composition and transmission in writing. In It seems obvious, however, that the formation of ancient hebrew texts was heavily influenced by oral... more
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      Textual CriticismReadingSeptuagintTorah/Pentateuch
The site was found during an archaeological survey in April 1980 by the mount Menashe Survey Group. It was excavated between 1982 and 1989 by a delegation led by Prof. Adam Zertal. The ritual site at Mount Ebal was excavated for eight... more
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      SamaritansMount GerizimAdam Zertal
particularly re the temple and the reunification of the kingdom. First I will summarize Hahn's position on these two points as found in chapter seven, "The Davidic Grant-Type Covenant" (176-213), and in chapter eight, "Davidic Covenant... more
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      New TestamentApocalypticismOld Testament ProphecyHermeneutics
In the Second Temple period, from the fifth to the fourth centuries CE until 70 CE, the form of the Assyrian script (also known as a square script, Jewish, Aramaic) became the most common form of writing among Jews of Judea, and also... more
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      ArchaeologyEthicsSamaritan StudiesSamaritans
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      GlassIslamic StudiesEarly Islamic ArchaeologyAncient Glass
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      Samaritan StudiesSamaritansFlavius JosephusGerizim
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      Second Temple JudaismEzra-NehemiahSamaritan PentateuchSamaritans
The audio document contains the Samaritan recitation of Exod 12, read by the Samaritan High priest during the Passover sacrifice. During the very last words of this passage "wšā:ṭu ūtu" ("and they/you shall slaughter it") the slaughtering... more
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      Hebrew LiteratureSemitic languagesHebrew LanguageComparative Semitic Linguistics
Identification, reconstruction, and presentation of the "Treatise on the Qibla" by the 11th century Samaritan polymath Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī along with its Qaraite refutation. To be published in the proceedings of the 8th Congress of the... more
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      Kalam (Islamic Theology)Judeo-ArabicMu'tazilitesArabic Manuscripts
Overview over current research in the Samaritan Pentateuch and its importance for the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. / Forschungsüberblick zum Samaritanischen Pentateuch und seiner texthistorischen Bedeutung.
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      Hebrew LanguageHebrew BibleTextual CriticismTorah/Pentateuch
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      Jewish StudiesEarly Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman)Jewish HistorySecond Temple Judaism
1-2 Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah express a different approach to the future of Israel to that provided in the Earlier Prophets. Firstly, the nature and the dating of this part of the Hebrew Bible are discussed, suggesting the end of the... more
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      Hebrew BibleChronicles-Ezra-NehemiahHebrew Bible and Ancient Near EastEzra-Nehemiah
This chapter presents the faunal remains from a small deposit at Tel Barukh, and discusses the possible scenarios leading to the formation of this unique feature and the possible ritual significance of its deposition. Eight rock-cut... more
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      ZooarchaeologyDeath and Burial (Archaeology)Samaritans