The Samaritans: A ProfileAuthoritative 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Identity of the Samaritans | 9 |
Samaritans in the Hebrew BibleOld Testament? | 26 |
The Samaritans and the New Testament | 36 |
Samaritans in Jewish Writings of Antiquity | 47 |
Archaeological Excavations | 74 |
Samaritan Sects | 119 |
Muslim and Karaite Sources | 123 |
Liturgy | 239 |
Chronicles | 241 |
Linguistic Writings | 249 |
Folktales | 251 |
Interactions with European Scholars | 252 |
Samaritan Rituals and Customs | 257 |
The Samaritan Calendar | 258 |
Passover and Maṣot | 260 |
Patristic Sources | 124 |
The Samaritans in History | 128 |
Late Roman and Byzantine Periods | 131 |
Early Muslim Period | 142 |
Crusader Period | 150 |
Mamluk Period | 152 |
Ottoman Period | 155 |
Modern Period | 164 |
Geographical Distribution and Demography | 170 |
Palestine | 171 |
Diaspora | 180 |
Demography | 187 |
The Samaritan Pentateuch | 195 |
Ancient Translations of the Samaritan Pentateuch | 208 |
The Samaritan Pentateuch in Western Scholarship | 211 |
The Samaritan Script | 213 |
Samaritan Literature | 219 |
Exegesis | 223 |
Halakhah | 231 |
The Feast of Weeks | 263 |
The First Day of the Seventh Month | 264 |
The Eighth Day of Tabernacles Shemini Aṣeret | 266 |
Pilgrimage | 267 |
Circumcision | 270 |
Redemption of the First Born | 271 |
Betrothal and Wedding | 272 |
Funeral | 275 |
Prayer | 277 |
Music | 282 |
Art | 284 |
The Samaritans Today | 289 |
New Challenges | 302 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Samaritans: A Profile |
| Author | Reinhard Pummer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2016 |
| ISBN | 0802867685, 9780802867681 |
| Length | 362 pages |
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