The Samaritans : : a biblical people / / edited by Steven Fine.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fine, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 239 pages) :; many color illustrations

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.-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

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?