The Samaritan Update “Mount Gerizim, All the Days of Our Lives”

January/February 2020 Vol. XIX - No 3 Your link to the Samaritan Update Index 2020, the Samaritan Community number 818. In This Issue

 Samaritan Parochet Future Events  8 Shehadeh articles It has been 3658 years since the entrance into the Holy Land  Sad News which happened on the Sixth Month of the Hebrew Year.  Facebook Posts The year 3658 is a leap year.  Auction (Samaritan’s typical calendar)  10th Congress  Magazines 2019 - 2020  From the Editor Passover Sacrifice on the eve of May 6, 2020  Samaritan Fragment ~~~~~~~~~~~~  New Publications Notice:  Har Bracha Tahini The Samaritan Museum on Mount Gerizim is closed from  Articles 2020/3/5 until further notice, due to the corona epidemic, in  Biblio order to preserve the public interest. Priest Hosni

The New Parochet (curtain) in the synagogue posted Abood Cohen 2/21/2020 on the Facebook Group B’nei Mose

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Sad News YESSEF B. AFIF B. ZVULAN ALTIF HADINFI (1940-2020): MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE on Saturday night, yad renew 1.2.2020, 1.2.2020, was brought to rest in the hrgrzym cemetery. ~~~~~~~~~ From The-Samaritans.net We are more than happy to finally announce that the most comprehensive site, regarding of the Samaritans, is on-line again: https://www.the-samaritans.net ( used to be The- Samaritans.com in the past). You are all, more than welcome to visit and share with others.

Best regards, Sassoni Osher Also see Facebook and the short article The Bathing Prayer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Facebook Images post Jan. 29, 2020 by Amit Marhiv

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Auction 022 Online Auction – Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Letters, Objects By Kedem Wednesday, Mar 4, 10:00 (Your local time) 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.

LOT 348: Not Sold Samaritan Manuscript

Samaritan manuscript [content unknown to us]. On the first page is a Hebrew inscription: "The High Priest Moreno Mercy - Holon", and the Star of David. [Various Jewish subjects, Religion, Kabbalah, Literature.] [6] leaves. 16 cm. Fair condition. Dark damp stains. Cardboard binding.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CfP - 10th Congress of the Société d'Etudes Samaritaines Societé d'Etudes Samaritaines, 2020

שרוש ןפטש / Stefan Schorch József Zsengellér

The Congress of the SÉS meets every four years and is the most important meeting of experts working in the field of Samaritan studies worldwide. Lectures may deal with any aspect of the

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Samaritan community, their contemporary life and living conditions, their history, their religion and their laws, their literature and languages etc. Closing date for proposals: 1st February 2020. Publication Date: 2020 Publication Name: Societé d'Etudes Samaritaines https://www.academia.edu/41250211/CfP_- _10th_Congress_of_the_Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_dEtudes_Samaritaines?email_work_card=view-paper ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 100 Years Ago: January 1920 National Geographic Magazine https://ngscollectors.ning.com/forum/topics/100-years-ago- january-1920

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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Vol. LXXX New Series: VOL. LVIII May to October, 1910 ‘From Nazareth To Jerusalem (The Holy Land: Fourth Paper)’ by Robert Hichens Image on page 11.

It is interesting to see the view from the Mount during Passover. We have seen glass slides with the tents and Gerizim in the background in the past.

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~~~~~ From the Editor Recently I have been reading Tibåt Mårqe: The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary (Studia Samaritana) by Abraham Tal (Editor). It is an interesting read which brings me to other sources (see below). I have also in my Book Collection, Memar Marqah, The Teaching of Marqah (2 Vol.) edited by John MacDonald and also Memar Marqa, Ein Samaritanischer Midrasch zum Pentateuch by David Rettig. If you have read anything on Marqah or are wondering what if it is worth purchasing, I would say YES!

I must also express that I have become frustrated with the search engines lately, as research is even more difficult with so much chatter and fake websites that appear to go nowhere. ~~~~~~~~~~~

For sale on Ebay

Die Passahfeier der Samaritaner und ihre Bedeutung für das Verständnis der alttestamentlichen Passahüberlieferung by Joachim Jeremias, Giessen: 1932. LANGUAGE: GERMAN

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Samaritan Fragment is on display at the Scriptorium at the Holy Land Experience, Orlando Florida, USA Immerse yourself in a biblical atmosphere at the Holy Land Experience. https://holylandexperience.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CAL BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECTIONS FOR Samaritan: Samaritan Language http://cal.huc.edu/browsesigla.php?subclass=Samaritan%20Language&generalclass=Samaritan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

New Publications

Judaisme Ancien / Ancient Judaism - Jaaj 7: Samariens Et Samaritains En Transition / Samarians and Samaritans in Translation (French Edition) by Brepols Publishers (Author) Series: Judaisme Ancien / Ancient Judaism (Book 7) Paperback: 306 pages Publisher: Brepols Pub (January 1, 2020) Language: French ISBN-10: 2503582702 ISBN-13: 978-2503582702

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Tibåt Mårqe: The Ark of Marqe Edition, Translation, Commentary (Studia Samaritana) by Abraham Tal (Editor) 2019 publication, now available

Tibåt Mårqe is a collection of midrashic compositions, which, in the main, rewrites the Pentateuch, expanding its sometimes laconic presentation of events and precepts. Most of it aims at providing the reader with theological, didactic and philosophical teachings, artistically associated with the passages of the Torah. Here and there poetic pieces are embedded into its otherwise prosaic text. Tibåt Mårqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and poet, Mårqe. This publication of Tibåt Mårqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze’ev Ben-Hayyim, Tibåt Mårqe, a Collection of Samaritan Midrashim (Jerusalem 1988), based on a 16th century manuscript. Though he recognized the precedence of an earlier manuscript, dated to the 14th century, Ben-Hayyim was compelled to prefer the former, given the fragmentary state of the latter. He printed its fragments in parallel with the younger one, to which his annotations and discussions chiefly pertain. With the recent discovery of a great portion of the missing parts of the 14th century manuscript, this edition endeavors to present the older form of the composition. The present book may be relevant to people interested in literature, language, religion, and Samaritan studies. https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/460971?rskey=kgPRpY&result=2

Gary N. Knoppers Judah and Samaria in Postmonarchic Times Essays on Their Histories and Literatures [Judah und Samaria in postmonarchischen Zeiten. Aufsätze zu ihrer Geschichte und Literatur.] 2019. XI, 333 pages. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 129

Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in Jewish History Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon Series: Studies in Jewish Civilization Copyright Date: 2019 Published by: Purdue University Press Exile and Return in the Samaritan Traditions (pp. 49-70) Menahem Mor In 2017 there were 805 Samaritans living in Israel, 418 of them in the city of Holon with Israeli citizenship and 387 in Kiryat Luza, a village on Mount Gerizim in the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority, which is under Israeli security control. The inhabitants of Kiryat Luza also have Israeli citizenship, but since this village is connected with the municipal area of Nablus (Shechem), its inhabitants have Palestinian citizenship as well. The Samaritans, who call themselves “Shomrim” [Keepers of the Torah], reject their definition by others as a community and define themselves as an ancient people and as... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Har Bracha Tahini https://www.bayyari.com/har/

A few places to buy Samaritan made Har Bracha Tahini Makolet online Amazon At Kosher Central Ebay Super Kacker Kroger On Line Food Store Moses and Co. Nuts and More

See an online video by Atah Cohen of the Har Bracha Tahini on Youtube See process in action at https://www.facebook.com/HarBrachaTahini/videos/581017939383792/?t=13 Common ground: Palestinian Tehina flows from Nablus to Tel Aviv from the Jerusalem Post See the review at the Strategist of the New York Magazine http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-tahini-according-to-experts.html ~~~~~~~~

Articles

The Allographic Use of Hebrew and Arabic in the Samaritan Manuscript Culture. In: Intellectual History of the Islamicate World Author: Stefan Schorch Online Publication Date: 20 Jan 2020 In: Volume 8: Issue 1, 1–38 https://brill.com/view/journals/ihiw/8/1/article-p1_1.xml

Abstract: In the 10th/11th century, Arabic became both the vernacular and literary language of the Samaritan community, along with the two languages of the liturgy: Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic; Samaritan Neo Hebrew was also employed at this time mainly for the composition of religious poems. Together with the introduction of the Arabic language, the Samaritans started to use the Arabic script, along with the Samaritan Hebrew formal and cursive scripts. In comparison with the use of the Arabic script, the Samaritan Hebrew script served mostly for more sacred texts or was employed in order to mark certain textual passages with a higher degree of sacredness. Allography of Arabic in Samaritan Hebrew letters is attested in Samaritan manuscripts since the beginning of the 13th century, although it was introduced most probably at an earlier date. This allography is employed mainly for the Arabic translation of the Samaritan Torah, for the Arabic translations of prayers, and for Samaritan Hebrew or Samaritan Aramaic quotes in Arabic texts. The replacement of Arabic by Modern Israeli Hebrew as the primary vernacular among the Samaritans living in the State of Israel led to a revival of Samaritan Hebrew allography for Arabic texts in the 20th century, mainly in festival poems in Arabic language, which are performed at certain occasions, although not all congregants are still 13

TheSamaritanUpdate.com January / February 2020 familiar with the Arabic language and script. A close analysis demonstrates that Samaritan Hebrew allography of Arabic is the result of an intense contact between two scribal cultures, both of which were well established amongst the Samaritans. The allographic use of the Samaritan Hebrew script for writing Arabic texts originally did not aim to make these texts more accessible to Samaritan readers, but rather was employed to mark Arabic texts as belonging to the realm of the sacred.

Representation of Arabic and Syriac in the Samaritan Version of Saadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch. In: Intellectual History of the Islamicate World Author: Tamar Zewi Online Publication Date: 20 Jan 2020 In: Volume 8: Issue 1 https://brill.com/view/journals/ihiw/8/1/article-p39_2.xml

Abstract: Saadya ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (Saˁīd b. Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, Saadya Gaon, b. Egypt 882— d. Baghdad 942) translated the Pentateuch as well as several other parts of the Bible into Arabic in the first half of the 10th century. The translation, named tafsīr by Saadya himself, was transmitted in two versions, one in Hebrew letters, probably intended for and used by Jewish- Rabbanite communities, and another in Arabic letters, probably intended for and used by other communities. Several manuscripts holding a Saadyan version in Arabic letters were used by Christian communities in the Near East. Some of these manuscripts probably reached the Samaritans, or at least one Samaritan community. The main source consisting of the Samaritan version of Saadya Gaon’s translation of the Pentateuch is MS London BL OR 7562. The article discusses the status of this manuscript among the other Samaritan Arabic translations, its characteristics, and demonstrates the reflections of Arabic and Syriac vocabulary in its Samaritan script.

From Religious to Cultural and Back Again: Tourism Development, Heritage Revitalization, and Religious Transnationalizations among the Samaritans by Fanny Urien-Lefranc Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain, UMR 8177, CNRS/EHESS, 75006 Paris, France Religions 2020, 11(2), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11020086 Published: 13 February 2020 https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/2/86

Abstract: The Samaritans form a community of about 810 people split between Mount Gerizim (West Bank) and Holon (Israel). Through tourism of holy sites and cultural heritage promotion, this article examines different ways in which religion can be used as a cultural resource. How do these phenomena contribute to the emergence of a transnationalization of religion in the globalized context?

The Samaritan and Jewish Versions of the Pentateuch: A Survey by Ingrid Hjelm Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, 1165 Copenhagen, Denmark Religions 2020, 11(2), 85; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11020085 Published: 12 February 2020 https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/2/85

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Abstract: This article discusses the main differences between the Samaritan and the Jewish versions of the Pentateuch. The Samaritan Bible consists of the Torah—that is, the Five Books of Moses—also called the Samaritan Pentateuch (SP). The Jewish Bible contains in addition the Prophets and the Writings, a total of 39 books. The introduction seeks to present both traditions in their own right and in relation to other ancient textual traditions (the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient Greek and Latin, and the Septuagint). The focus of this article is on the shared tradition of the Pentateuch with special emphasis on the textual and theological character of the Samaritan Pentateuch: major variants in the SP, the Moses Layer, and the cult place. This article closes with discussion of editions and translations of the Samaritan Bible and the Masoretic Bible respectively.

Judaïsme Ancien - Ancient Judaism Volume 7 / 2019 Print ISSN: 2294-9321 Online ISSN: 2507-0339 https://www.brepolsonline.net/toc/jaaj/current

Table of Contents Front Matter (“Table des matières”), p. i Citation | PDF (78 KB)

Shared Jewish Texts Related to the Samaritan Pentateuch, p. 1 Eugene Ulrich Abstract | PDF (292 KB)

Editorial Attitudes Toward Legal Material in Samaritan and Qumran Traditions, p. 29 Sarianna Metso Abstract | PDF (281 KB)

Samaritan Ethnicity in Josephus: Rhetoric and Historicity, p. 45 Reinhard Pummer Abstract | PDF (336 KB)

Where Should the Temple Stand: In Jerusalem or on Mount Gerizim?, p. 75 Magnar Kartveit Abstract | PDF (217 KB)

The Sacred Sites of Gilgal, Mt. Gerizim, and Mt. Ebal and their Sacred Rites: Evidence from the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 89 Gary N. Knoppers The Sacred Sites of Gilgal, Mt. Gerizim, and Mt. Ebal and their Sacred Rites: Evidence from the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Dead Sea Scrolls Citation | PDF (345 KB)

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Biblio

Chalmers, Matthew J. University of Pennsylvania, Representations Of Samaritans In Late Antique Jewish And Christian Texts. 2019 Thesis

Dahmen, Ulrich (Review) The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans, hg. v. Magnar KARTVEIT / Gary N. KNOPPERS. – Berlin: De Gruyter 2017. (VIII) 214 S. (Studia Judaica, 104 / Studia Samaritana, 10), geb. € 86,95 ISBN: 978-3-11-057522-4 THEOLOGISCHE REVUE 116. Jahrgang – Februar 2020

Droeber, Julia Avoidance as Inter-Religious Competence? Samaritans and Their Religious “Others” in Nablus, Palestine. Religions 2020, 11, 71;

Dušek, Jan The Importance of the Wadi Daliyeh Manuscripts for the History of Samaria and the Samaritans. Religions 2020, 11, 63;

Gudme, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Was the Temple on Mount Gerizim Modelled after the Jerusalem Temple? Religions 2020, 11, 73;

Levy-Rubin, Milka “Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and his Attitude towards the Protected People according to a Contemporary Samaritan Chronicle”, in Chapters in the History of Eretz Israel and its Settlement – Researches Offered to Y. Ben Porat, eds. Y. Ben Aryeh et al., Jerusalem 2003, pp. 345-360 (Hebrew).

Islamization of Space and People: The case of Samaria in the Early Muslim Period. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 2019

New Evidence Relating to the Process of Islamization in the Early Muslim Period: the Case of Samaria", JESHO 43.3 (2000), pp. 257 - 276.

“The Samaritans in Palestine in the Early Muslim Period”, in Researches on the History of Samaria and the Samaritans, Yad Yizhak Ben Zvi, eds. E. Stern & H. Eshel, Jerusalem 2002, pp. 562-586. (Hebrew)

Luciani, Didier Review of: Schorch (ed.), The Samaritan Pentateuch, vol. 3: Leviticus, Nouvelle revue théologique Issue: 2, Volume: 141, 2019

Mendel-Geberovich, Anat & André Lemaire Unpublished and newly Read Aramaic Inscriptions from Samaria, Ma’arav 23.2, (2019) 337-346, 499-504

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Tal, Abraham Is there a Raison d'Être for an Aramaic Targum in a Hebrew-Speaking Society? Revue d'Études Juives 160 (2001), 357-378

Urien-Lefranc, Fanny From Religious to Cultural and Back Again: Tourism Development, Heritage Revitalization, and Religious Transnationalizations among the Samaritans. Religions Published: 13 February 2020

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