The Samaritans and Early Judaism A Literary Analysis

includes index and biblioraphy

the two-episode paradigm:
samaritan research from montgomery to coggins 13
The Earliest Jewish Sect: The Position of J.A. Montgomery 13
The Original Israelites: The Position of M. Gaster 22
A Postexilic Political Schism: The Position of A. Alt 30
Decisive Elements in the Formation of a Distinct
Samaritan Community in the Hasmonaean Period:
The Positions of H.H. Rowley, G. Holscher,
W.F. Albright and M. Smith 33
Taking up Old Ideas: The Positions of P.M. Cross
and H.G. Kippenberg 41
Breaking the Two-Episode Paradigm: The Position
ofR.J. Coggins 48
radical alternatives:
the theories of crown and nodet 52
A.D. Crown`s Late Dating for a Distinctive Samaritanism 53
Samaritans as Original Israelites? The Position of E. Nodet 61
samaritan literature 76
The Pentateuch 76
Manuscripts 83
Translations 85
The Special Features of the Samaritan Pentateuch 87
Samaritan Theological Literature Chronicles Halakhic Literature Commentaries on the Pentateuch
samaritans in jewish, christian and hellenistic
literature 104
Rabbinic Judaism in the Light of the Samaritan Question 104
Christianity in the Light of the Jewish-Samaritan Question 115
The Request for an Identification of Simon the Just and
Ben Sira 50.25-26 125
The Foolish People in Shechem: Who Are They? 138
Shechem in the Old Testament Tradition 146
The Levites in Jewish Traditions 152
Zadok; priS `H D
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ron and the Levites 158
Jews, Conflicts and Reputation 171
samaritans in the writings of josephus 1 83
General Introduction to Josephus`s Works 183
Examination of Josephus`s Various Descriptions of Samaritans 192
Josephus`s Terminology 216
Josephus between Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities 222
Concluding Remarks to Josephus`s Presentation of Samaritans 226
Mount Gerizim, Tell er-Ras 234
samaritan historiography 239
Prophets in Samaritan Tradition 254
The Historiography of the `Postexilic` Period 258
from literary to historical reality 273