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

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 t...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studia Samaritana ; 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 341 p.)
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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