The Samaritans in Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives / / ed. by Jan Dusek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Akhiezer, Golda,; Bardenstein, Ruth,; Boušek, Daniel,; Droeber, Julia,; Dušek, Jan,; Hensel, Benedikt,; Hjelm, Ingrid,; Kartveit, Magnar,; Lehnardt, Andreas,; Moshe, Florentin,; Pummer, Reinhard,; Schorch, Stefan,; Schreiber, Monika,; Shehadeh, Haseeb,; Tal, Abraham,; Tarshin, Alina,; Wedel, Gerhard,
• HerausgeberIn: Dusek, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Samaritana ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 341 p.)

The volume contributes to the knowledge of the Samaritan history, culture and linguistics. Specialists of various fields of research bring a new look on the topics related to the Samaritans and the Hebrew and Arabic written sources, to the Samaritan history in the Roman-Byzantine period as well as to the contemporary issues of the Samaritan community.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Hebrew Bible and Samaritan Pentateuch -- Anti-Samaritan Polemics in the Hebrew Bible? The Case of 2 Kings 17:24–41 -- So-called Deuteronomic Addenda in the Samaritan Pentateuch Numbers 10–14 and 20–27: Where Do They Belong? -- The Chronicler’s Polemics towards the Samarian YHWH-Worshippers: A Fresh Approach -- 2. Roman-Byzantine and Rabbinic Studies -- Synagogues – Samaritan and Jewish: A New Look at their Differentiating Characteristics -- “If a Cuthean Comes and Forces You into Military Service” (Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana, Ha-Hodesh, pisqa 5): Anti-Samaritan Polemics in a Homiletic Midrash -- Nimrod, “A Man of Might” – How Many of Them? -- 3. Arabic Studies -- The Story of the Prophet Muḥammad’s Encounter with a Samaritan, a Jew, and a Christian: The Version from Abū l-Fatḥ’s Kitāb al-Tārīkh and Its Context -- An Unknown and Unique Samaritan Arabic Introductory Prayer by Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī (11th Century) -- Polemics in Abū l-Ḥasan aṣ-Ṣūrī’s Kitāb al-Ṭabbāḫ (11th Century CE) -- One Fifth of the Tiny Samaritan Community in Nablus Died in the Epidemic of 1786 -- 4. Samaritans in Modern and Contemporary Time -- Historical Bindings of the Chamberlain- Warren Samaritan Collection -- Between Samaritans and Karaites: Abraham Firkovich and His Perception of Samaritanism -- Does Religious Diversity Work? Samaritans and Their Religious “Others” in Contemporary Nablus -- The Arab, the Jewish, and the Ukrainian Marriage: Picking Spouses in the Samaritan Community -- 5. Linguistic Studies -- “On the Head Joseph, and on the Leader, the Consecrated among His Brothers” (Genesis 49:26; Deuteronomy 33:16): A Study of the Grammar, Interpretation, and Version of Two Words with Geminated Consonants in the Samaritan Pentateuch -- Hyperheavy Syllables Created in Samaritan Aramaic with no Affinity to the Contraction of Two Syllables into One -- Abstracts and Keywords -- Index of Authors -- Index of Sources