by hadassah | Nov 23, 2015 | Jewish-Samaritan Relations
Does the Samaritan community in Nablus have a Torah Scroll written by Aaron’s great-grandson? A small group of Samaritans—they now number fewer than 300—continues to live in ancient Shechem (modern Nablus on the West Bank) at the foot of their holy mountain, Mt....
by hadassah | Nov 22, 2015 | Jewish-Samaritan Relations
When the Ta‘âmireh bedouin penetrated the Daliyeh cave (as described in the previous article by Paul Lapp) they found within more than 300 skeletons lying on or covered by mats. The bones were mixed with fragments of manuscripts. These manuscripts were not burial...
by hadassah | Nov 22, 2015 | Jewish-Samaritan Relations
A Jewish offshoot or a pagan cult? The best-known incident in the Bible regarding the Samaritans is of course the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:25–37: A priest and a Levite both pass by a man who has been robbed and beaten. The Samaritan, however, stops and...
by hadassah | Nov 2, 2008 | Jewish-Samaritan Relations
Throughout the Second Commonwealth Judeans and Samaritans were engaged in intermittent conflict. Many scholars, on the basis of studies of the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Samaritan script, have concluded that the schism should be dated to the building of the...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Jewish-Samaritan Relations
Josephus provides an account of the building of the Temple which supplements that in Ezra. However, it clearly draws on 1 Esdras while at the same time including other traditions which expand the narrative. Aspects of his account must therefore be seen as independent...
by hadassah | Apr 8, 2008 | Jewish-Samaritan Relations
Samaritan origins were described in 2 Kings. Later Rabbis would call them “lion converts,” that is, converts against their will, and further argue against their Jewish status based on this account. 17-24 The king of Assyria brought (people) from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva,...
