Jews and Samaritans
Subtitle: the origins and history of their early relations
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780195329544
Description: Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the people called Samaritans, living in the region of ancient Samaria (near modern Nablus). The Samaritans practiced a religion almost identical to Judaism and shared a common set of scriptures. Yet the Samaritans and Jews had little to do with each other ... Covering over a thousand years of history, this book makes an important contribution to the fields of Jewish studies, biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, Samaritan studies, and early Christian history by challenging the oppositional paradigm that has traditionally characterized the historical relations between Jews and Samaritans. Only by recognizing the close ties that developed between Samaria and Judah during much of the first millennium BCE can one explain how the two communities became so similar in belief and practice. -- Book Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Samaritans, Jews, and the contested legacy of classical Israel; title: The fall of the Northern Kingdom and the ten lost tribes : a reevaluation; title: God and country : the revival of Israelite religion in postexilic Samaria; title: The fall of the Northern Kingdom as a new beginning in northern Israelite-southern Israelite relations A distinction without a difference? : Samarian and Judean cultures during the Persian and early Hellenistic periods; title: Ethnicity, communal identity, and imperial authority : contextualizing the conflicts between Samaria and Judah in Ezra-Nehemiah; title: The Torah and "the place(s) for Yhwh's name" : Samarian-Judean relations in Hellenistic and Maccabean times; title: An absolute breach?