The Samaritans: A Biblical People celebrates the culture of the Israelite Samaritans from biblical times to our own day. This exquisite volume explores ways that Samaritans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have interacted, shunned and interpreted one another across western civilization.
Author(s): Steven Fine
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 264
City: Leiden
The Samaritans
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Foreword
Greetings
Preface, YU Center for Israel Studies
Preface, Museum of the Bible
Contributors
Introduction: From the Heights of Mount Gerizim
1 “The Consolation of Souls, the Assurer of Hearts, and the Certainty of Truth”: The Abisha Scroll
2 The Samaritan Tabernacle: From Sinai to the Mountain of Blessings
3 “Woe to Those Who Exchanged the Truth for a Lie, When They Choose for Themselves a Different Place”: Samaritan Perspectives on the Samaritan–Jewish Split
4 “Kinsmen” or an “Alien Race?”: Jews and Samaritans from the Hasmoneans to the Mishnah
5 “But a Samaritan … Had Compassion”: Jesus, Early Christianity, and the Samaritans
6 “Do You Have an Onion?”: Rabbis and Samaritans in Late Antiquity
7 “A Place in which to Read, to Interpret, and to Hear Petitions”: Samaritan Synagogues
8 Sukkot in the Garden of Eden: Liturgy, Christianity, and the Bronze Bird on Mount Gerizim
9 “This Covenant of Peace for the Samaritans”: The Prophet Muhammad’s Encounter with a Samaritan, a Jew, and a Christian
10 “These Are the Jews of Shomron Who Are Called Samaritans”: Jews and Samaritans in the High Middle Ages
11 “Do You Have the Chronicles of the Kings of Samaria?”: Jewish Knowledge, Christian Hebraists, and the European “Discovery” of the Samaritans
12 Two Minorities on the Brink: Jews and Samaritans in Nineteenth-Century Nablus
13 “The Priest Salama Son of Ghazal and the Tailors”: Palestinian Arab Justice and the Samaritans
14 “And We Shall Be One People”: Abraham Firkovich, Karaism, and the Samaritans
15 Samaritans on the American Protestant Mind: William Barton, Edward Warren, and the American Samaritan Committee
16 “Joined at Last”: Moses Gasterand the Samaritans
17 “To this Day the Samaritans Have Never Left Shechem and Mount Gerizim”: Izhak Ben-Zvi, David Ben-Gurion, and the Samaritans
18 Passover, 1968: Johanna Spector, Israeli Civil Religion, and the Ethnographic Study of the Samaritans
19 Samaritan Stories in the Israel Folktale Archives: Poetics and Cultural Exchange in Modern Israel
20 A “Samaritan Renaissance”:The Tsedaka Legacy and the Samaritan Community in Israel
21 Tales of the Samaritan Elders
22 Reflections of a Documentary Filmmaker
23 Contemporary Jewish Artists Encounter Samaritan Culture: A Visual Essay
24 Afterword: Why the Samaritans?
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