This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, that explore the history and tradition of the ancient relationship between Samaritans and Jews.
The book is arranged into three parts: Methods, Traditions, and History; Samaritan and Jewish Pentateuchs; and Studies in Bible and Tradition, each of which is chronologically ordered. It represents a collection of the author’s previous publications on the relationship between Samaritans and Jews, expanding and supplementing the conclusions of her published books. Recent archaeological developments on Mount Gerizim have demonstrated that our paradigms for writing the ancient histories of the kingdoms and provinces of Samaria and Judah in the Iron II, Persian, and Hellenistic periods must change. These developments also affect how we evaluate and read ancient literary traditions, and several chapters offer challenging new perspectives on well-known themes, narratives, and compositions in this subject area.
Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing Perspectives 10 will be of interest to students and scholars of biblical studies, theology, comparative religion, the ancient Near East, and in particular, Samaritan and Jewish studies.
"Part 1 Methods, Traditions, and History 1. Cult Centralization as a Device of Cult Control? 2. History of Palestine With and Without the Bible: An Introduction 3. Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History 4. Changing Paradigms: Judaean and Samarian Histories in Light of Recent Research 5. Yahweh’s Chosen Place: Temple Ideology and Historical (Re)construction 6. Tribes, Genealogies, and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible 7. From History’s Non-Jewish Israel to Tradition’s and Scholarship’s ""The Ancient, the New, and the Newest Israel"" Part 2 Samaritan and Jewish Pentateuchs 8. Portraits of Moses in the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Fourth-Century Samaritan Midrash Memar or Tibat Marqah 9. ""The Pentateuch That the Samaritans Chose"": Modern Fallacies Regarding the Origins and Characteristics of the Samaritan Pentateuch 10. Northern Perspectives in Deuteronomy and Its Relation to the Samaritan Pentateuch 11. So-Called Deuteronomic Addenda in SP Numbers 10–14 and 20–27. Where Do They Belong? Part 3 Studies in Bible and Tradition 12. Whose Bible Is It Anyway?: Ancient Authors, Medieval Manuscripts, and Modern Perceptions 13. Samaria, Samaritans, and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible 14. ""Who Is My Neighbor?"": Implicit Use of Old Testament Stories and Motifs in Luke’s Gospel 15. Simon Magus in Patristic and Samaritan Sources: The Growth of a Tradition 16. ""Coming From Harran"". The Role of Harran in Near Eastern, Biblical, and Samaritan Literature 17. Josephus in the Tents of Shem and Japhet. The Status of Ancient Authors in Josephus’ Treatise Against Apion 1.1–218 18. Exile as Pilgrimage? 19. The Coming of a ""Prophet Like You"" in Ancient Literature"
Ingrid Hjelm is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Copenhagen, former Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project (2014–2017), and general editor of the Copenhagen International Seminar series (2011–). She is the author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Palestine, Israel, and Judaea, and the Hebrew Bible. She has coauthored with K. Whitelam, T.L. Thompson, N.P. Lemche, and Z. Muna, New Information about the History of Ancient Palestine (Arabic; 2004); and with T.L Thompson, The Ever Elusive Past (2019). She has coedited with A.K. de Hemmer Gudme, Myths of Exile (2015); with T.L. Thompson, History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years after ‘Historicity’ (2016), and Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity (2016); and with H. Taha, I. Pappe, and T.L. Thompson, the first volume of the Palestine History and Heritage project: A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine (2019). Hjelm has been awarded the University of Copenhagen’s Gold Medal in 1997 and the Samaritan Medal for Peace and Humanitarian Achievement in 2011 for her contribution to Samaritan studies.
