Editing Samaritanism

{{Short description|Abrahamic monotheistic ethnic religion}} 
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{{Infobox religion
| name               = Samaritanism
| native_name        = {{nobold|{{lang|he|{{Script/Hebrew|הַדָּת הַשּׁוֹמְרוֹנִית|rtl=yes}}}}<br /> {{lang|ar|السامرية|rtl=yes}}}}
| type               = [[Ethnic religion]]
| main_classification = 
| founder            = [[Abraham]] (traditional)
[[Moses]] (traditional, lawgiver)
| founded_date       = {{circa|6th–3rd century BCE}}
| founded_place      = [[History of ancient Israel and Judah|Kingdoms of Judah and Israel]]
| native_name_lang   = he
| image              = Gerizim Samaritan Torah IMG 2118.JPG
| caption            = Samaritan [[Torah]] scrolls in the Samaritan synagogue on [[Mount Gerizim]].
| leader_title       = [[Samaritan High Priest|High Priest]]
| leader_name        = [[Aabed-El ben Asher ben Matzliach]]
| scripture          = [[Samaritan Pentateuch]]
| theology           = [[God in Judaism|Monotheistic]]
| associations       = [[Judaism]]
| language           = [[Samaritan Hebrew]] and [[Samaritan Aramaic]]
| territory          = [[Land of Israel]]
| members            = ~800–900 ([[Samaritans]])
| separated_from     = [[Judaism]]/[[Yahwism]]
}}
{{Samaritanism}}
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'''Samaritanism''' (<!-- Someone should add Samaritan Hebrew here as well. -->{{Langx|he|{{Script/Hebrew|הַדָּת הַשּׁוֹמְרוֹנִית}}}}; {{Langx|ar|السامرية}}) is an [[Abrahamic religions|Abrahamic]] [[monotheism|monotheistic]] [[ethnic religion]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sela |first1=Shulamit |title=The Head of the Rabbanite, Karaite and Samaritan Jews: On the History of a Title |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |date=1994 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=255–267 |doi=10.1017/S0041977X00024848 |jstor=620572 |s2cid=162698361 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/620572 |issn=0041-977X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the [[Samaritans|Samaritan people]], who originate from the [[Hebrews]] and [[Israelites]] and began to emerge as a relatively distinct group after the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Kingdom of Israel]] was conquered by the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]] during the [[Iron Age]]. Central to the faith is the [[Samaritan Pentateuch]], which Samaritans believe is the original and unchanged version of the [[Torah]].{{sfn|Tsedaka|2013|p=xxi}}

Although it developed alongside and is closely related to [[Judaism]], Samaritanism asserts itself as the truly preserved form of the monotheistic faith that the Israelites adopted under [[Moses]]. Samaritan belief also holds that the Israelites' original holy site was [[Mount Gerizim]], near [[Nablus]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |title=Mount Gerizim and the Samaritans |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5706/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |language=en}}</ref> and that [[Jerusalem]] only attained importance under Israelite dissenters who had followed [[Eli (biblical figure)|Eli]] to the city of [[Shiloh (biblical city)|Shiloh]]; the Israelites who remained at Mount Gerizim would become the Samaritans in the Kingdom of Israel, whereas the Israelites who left would become the [[Jews]] in the [[Kingdom of Judah]]. Mount Gerizim is likewise revered by Samaritans as the location where the [[Binding of Isaac]] took place, [[Temple denial|in contrast]] to the Jewish belief that it occurred at Jerusalem's [[Temple Mount]].

Today there are only about 800<ref name="ohmyfacts">{{cite web|last=Fairclough|first=Owen|title=29 Facts About Samaritanism|website=ohmyfacts.com|publisher=|date=November 14, 2024|url=https://ohmyfacts.com/religion-history/29-facts-about-samaritanism/|access-date=February 13, 2025}}</ref> to 900<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=An Internet Newsletter & Archive Regarding the Samaritan-Israelites|website=thesamaritanupdate.com|publisher=|date=January 2, 2025|url=http://www.thesamaritanupdate.com/|access-date=February 13, 2025}}</ref> followers, which makes Samaritanism one of the smallest religions globally. According to one source, there were millions of followers in ancient times.<ref name="ohmyfacts" />

==History==

=== Traditional accounts ===
Samaritanism holds that the summit of [[Mount Gerizim]] is the true location of God's Holy Place. Samaritans trace their history as a separate entity to a period soon after the Israelites' entry into the [[Promised Land]]. Samaritan historiography traces the schism to [[High Priest of Israel|High Priest]] [[Eli (biblical figure)|Eli]] leaving Mount Gerizim, where stood the first Israelite altar in [[Canaan]], and building a competing altar in nearby [[Shiloh (biblical city)|Shiloh]]. The dissenting group of Israelites who had followed Eli to Shiloh would be the ones who in later years would head south to settle [[Jerusalem]] (the Jews), whereas the Israelites who stayed on Mount Gerizim, in Samaria, would become known as the Samaritans.{{sfn|Anderson|Giles|2002|p=11–12}}

[[Abu'l-Fath|Abu l-Fath]], who wrote a major work of Samaritan history in the 14th century, comments on Samaritan origins as follows:{{sfn|Anderson|Giles|2002|p=11–12}}
<blockquote>
A terrible civil war broke out between Eli son of Yafni, of the line of Ithamar, and the sons of Pincus ([[Phinehas]]), because Eli son of Yafni resolved to usurp the High Priesthood from the descendants of Pincus. He used to offer sacrifices on an altar of stones. He was 50 years old, endowed with wealth and in charge of the treasury of the Children of Israel. ...

He offered a sacrifice on the altar, but without salt, as if he were inattentive. When the Great High Priest Ozzi learned of this, and found the sacrifice was not accepted, he thoroughly disowned him; and it is (even) said that he rebuked him.

Thereupon he and the group that sympathized with him, rose in revolt and at once he and his followers and his beasts set off for Shiloh. Thus Israel split in factions. He sent to their leaders saying to them, ''Anyone who would like to see wonderful things, let him come to me.'' Then he assembled a large group around him in Shiloh, and built a Temple for himself there; he constructed a place like the Temple [on [[Mount Gerizim]]]. He built an altar, omitting no detail—it all corresponded to the original, piece by piece.

At this time the Children of Israel split into three factions. A loyal faction on Mount Gerizim; a heretical faction that followed false gods; and the faction that followed Eli son of Yafni in Shiloh.</blockquote>

Further, the ''Samaritan New Chronicle'' or ''Adler'', named after its editor [[Elkan Nathan Adler]] (1861-1946), which is believed to have been composed in the 18th century using earlier chronicles as sources, states:

{{quote|And the Children of Israel in his days divided into three groups. One did according to the abominations of the [[Gentile]]s and served other gods; another followed Eli the son of Yafni, although many of them turned away from him after he had revealed his intentions; and a third remained with the High Priest Uzzi ben Bukki, the chosen place.}}

=== Scholarly perspective ===
Modern genetic studies (2004) suggest that Samaritans' lineages trace back to a common ancestor with Jews in the paternally-inherited Jewish high priesthood ([[Kohen|Cohanim]]) temporally proximate to the period of the Assyrian conquest of the kingdom of Israel, and are probably descendants of the historical Israelite population.<ref>{{cite journal|pmid=15300852|url=http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Shen2004.pdf|year=2004|last1=Shen|first1=P|last2=Lavi|first2=T|last3=Kivisild|first3=T|last4=Chou|first4=V|last5=Sengun|first5=D|last6=Gefel|first6=D|last7=Shpirer|first7=I|last8=Woolf|first8=E|last9=Hillel|first9=J|title=Reconstruction of patrilineages and matrilineages of Samaritans and other Israeli populations from Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA sequence variation|volume=24|issue=3|pages=248–60|doi=10.1002/humu.20077|journal=Human Mutation|s2cid=1571356|access-date=13 October 2017|archive-date=20 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420110753/http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Shen2004.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{sfn|Kiaris|2021|p=14}} The religion of the proto-Samaritans at this time was probably no different than that of their southern counterparts in [[Judea]]. This likely remained the case for several centuries after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel, as Judean cultic reforms instituted by the kings [[Hezekiah]] and [[Josiah]] experience little opposition extending to the Samaritan people in the north, according to the biblical text.{{sfn|Knoppers|2013|pp=82–85}}

Though Samaritans certainly were culturally unique, they were closely intertwined with the Jews to the south. As such, Samaritanism likely did not emerge as a distinct tradition until the [[Hasmonean dynasty|Hasmonean]] and Roman era, by which point [[Yahwism]] had coalesced into [[Second Temple Judaism]].{{sfn|Knoppers|2013|pp=125–133}}{{prtb|date=February 2024}} The temple on Mount Gerizim, the central place of worship in Samaritanism, was built in the 5th century BCE,{{sfn|Knoppers|2013|pp=178–179}} as one of many Yahwistic temples in Samaria. However, the temple precinct experienced a centuries-long period of large-scale construction beginning around the 4th century BCE, which indicates that its status as the pre-eminent place of worship among Samaritans had only just been established. Likewise, theological debates between Jews and Samaritans are attested as early as the 2nd century BCE, indicating that the [[Samaritan Pentateuch]] had already taken shape, in some form.{{sfn|Knoppers|2013|p=177}}

The [[Hasmonean dynasty|Hasmonean]] king [[John Hyrcanus]] destroyed the Mount Gerizim temple and brought Samaria under his control around 120 BCE, which led to a longlasting sense of mutual hostility between the Jews and Samaritans.{{sfn|Knoppers|2013|pp=173–174}} From this point, the Samaritans likely sought to consciously distance themselves from their Judean brethren, and both peoples came to see the Samaritan faith as a religion distinct from Judaism.

The relationship between Jews and Samaritans only further deteriorated with time. By the time of [[Jesus]], Samaritans and Jews deeply disparaged one another, as evinced by Jesus' [[Parable of the Good Samaritan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Samaritan {{!}} Definition, Religion, & Bible {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Samaritan |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Beliefs==
The principal beliefs of Samaritanism are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/religion/|title=Religion of the Israelite Samaritans : The Root of all Abrahamic Religions|date=13 April 2020 }}</ref>{{Bcn|date=February 2024}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesamaritanupdate.com|title=Religion of the Israelite Samaritans}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/bible/bible-general/samaritan|title=Samaritan - Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
[[File:Shma yisrael.png|thumb|"[[Shema Yisrael|Shema Yisrael (ࠔࠌࠏ ࠉࠔࠓࠀࠋ)]]" written in [[Samaritan Hebrew]] calligraphy is the official symbol of the Samaritans.]]
* There is one [[God]], [[Yahweh]], the same God recognized by the [[prophet#The Hebrew and Jewish concepts of prophet|Jewish prophets]]. Faith is in the unity of the Creator which is absolute unity. It is the cause of the causes, and it fills the entire world. His nature can not be understood by human beings, but according to his actions and according to his revelation to his people and the kindness he showed them.
* The [[Torah]] is the only true holy book and was given by God to [[Moses]]. The Torah was created before the creation of the world and whoever believes in it is assured a part in the world to come. The status of the Torah in Samaritanism as the only holy book causes Samaritans to reject the [[Oral Torah]], [[Talmud]], and all prophets and scriptures except for a version of the [[Book of Joshua (Samaritan)|Book of Joshua]] which they don't hold as Scripture, whose book in the Samaritan community is significantly different from the [[Book of Joshua]] in the [[Hebrew Bible|Jewish Bible]]. Essentially, the authority of all post-Torah sections of the Jewish Bible and classical Jewish [[Rabbinic literature|Rabbinical works]] (the Talmud, comprising the [[Mishnah]] and the [[Gemara]]) is rejected. Moses is considered to be the last of the line of prophets.
* Mount Gerizim, not Jerusalem, is the one true sanctuary chosen by God. The Samaritans do not recognize the sanctity of Jerusalem and do not recognize the [[Temple Mount]], claiming instead that Mount Gerizim was the place where the [[binding of Isaac]] took place.
* The apocalypse, called "the day of vengeance", will be the end of days, when a figure called the Taheb (essentially the Samaritan equivalent of the [[Messiah in Judaism|Jewish Messiah]]) from the tribe of Joseph will come, be a prophet like Moses for 40 years and bring about the return of all the Israelites, following which the dead will be [[resurrection|resurrected]]. The Taheb will then discover the tent of Moses' [[Tabernacle]] on Mount Gerizim, and will be buried next to Joseph when he dies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/history/|title=History of the Samaritan Israelites|date=17 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sassoni |first1=Osher |title=Reflections on Relationship between Qumran and Samaritan Messianology |url=https://www.the-samaritans.net/2019/12/12/reflections-on-the-relationship-between-qumran-and-samaritan-messianology-by-ferdinand-dexinger/ |website=The Samaritans |access-date=11 February 2024 |date=12 December 2019}}</ref>

==Festivals and observances==
The Samaritans have conserved the institution of a [[High Priest of Israel|high priesthood]] and the practice of slaughtering and eating [[Lamb and mutton|lambs]] on [[Passover]] eve. They celebrate [[Pesach]], [[Shavuot]], and [[Sukkot]],{{sfn|de Hemmer Gudme|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=StMCvsROU1IC&pg=PA52 52]}} but use a different mode from that employed in Judaism in order to determine the dates annually.{{sfn|Powels|1989|pp=691-741}}{{prtb|date=February 2024}} Yom Teru'ah (the Biblical name for "[[Rosh Hashanah]]"), at the beginning of [[Tishrei]], is not considered a [[New Year]] as it is in [[Rabbinic Judaism]].

The sabbath is observed weekly by the Samaritan community every Friday to Saturday beginning and ending at sundown. For 24 hours, the families gather together to celebrate the rest day: all electricity with the exception of minimal lighting (kept on the entire day) in the house is disconnected, no work is done, and neither cooking nor driving is allowed. The time is devoted to worship which consists of seven [[Liturgy|prayer services]] (divided into two for sabbath eve, two in the morning, two in afternoon and one at eve of conclusion), reading the weekly Torah portion (according to the Samaritan yearly Torah cycle), spending quality time with family, taking meals, rest and sleep, and visiting other members of the community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sabbath Observance: How Israelite Samaritans Keep the Sabbath |url=https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/religion/sabbath-observance/ |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=Israelite Samaritan Information Institute |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Passover is particularly important in the Samaritan community, climaxing with the sacrifice of up to 40 sheep. The [[Counting of the Omer]] remains largely unchanged; however, the week before Shavuot is a unique festival celebrating the continued commitment Samaritanism has maintained since the time of Moses. Shavuot is characterized by nearly day-long services of continuous prayer, especially over the stones on Gerizim traditionally attributed to Joshua. 

During Sukkot, the [[sukkah]] is built inside houses, as opposed to outdoor settings that are traditional among Jews.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/inside-the-samaritan-high-priests-fruity-sukkah-literally/|title=Inside the Samaritan high priest's fruity sukkah, literally|last1=Lieber|first1=Dov|last2=Luzi|first2=Iacopo|website=The Times of Israel|date=19 October 2016|access-date=2019-12-05}}</ref> Samaritan historian Benyamim Tsedaka traces the indoor-sukkah tradition to persecution of Samaritans during the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref name=":0" /> The roof of the Samaritan sukkah is decorated with [[citrus]] fruits and the branches of [[Arecaceae|palm]], [[Myrtus|myrtle]], and [[willow]] trees, according to the Samaritan interpretation of the [[four species]] designated in the Torah for the holiday.<ref name=":0" /><gallery widths="200" heights="140">
File:Samaritans.jpg|Samaritans, from a photo c. 1900 by the [[Palestine Exploration Fund]].
File:Mezuzah IMG 2124.JPG|Samaritan ''[[mezuzah]]'' in the city of [[Nablus]], 2013
File:Bitknest2.jpg|A modern Samaritan synagogue in the city of [[Holon]], Israel
</gallery>

==Religious texts==
Samaritan law differs from [[Halakha]] (Rabbinic Jewish law) and other Jewish movements. The Samaritans have several groups of religious texts, which correspond to Jewish Halakha. A few examples of such texts are:

[[File:Samaritan High Priest and Old Pentateuch, 1905.png|thumb|[[Samaritan High Priest]] Yaakov ben Aharon and the [[Abisha Scroll]], 1905]]
* '''[[Samaritan Pentateuch]]''': There are some 6,000 differences between the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Masoretic Jewish Pentateuch text; and, according to one estimate, 1,900 points of agreement between it and the [[Septuagint|Greek LXX version]]. Several passages in the [[New Testament]] would also appear to echo a Torah textual tradition not dissimilar to that conserved in the Samaritan text. There are several theories regarding the similarities. The variations, some corroborated by readings in the Old Latin, Syriac and Ethiopian translations, attest to the antiquity of the Samaritan text,{{sfn|VanderKam|Flint|2005|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=SBMXnB4CRpUC&pg=PA95 95]}}{{sfn|Law|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YZoeAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 24]}}{{sfn|Seeligmann|2004|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BHYnIhREtzgC&pg=PA64 64]}} although the exact date of composition is still largely unclear. Granted special attention is the so-called "[[Abisha Scroll]]", a manuscript of the Pentateuch tradition attributed to [[Abishua]], grandson of [[Aaron]], traditionally compiled during the Bronze Age.
* '''Historical writings'''
** ''[[Samaritan Chronicle, The Tolidah]]'' (Creation to the time of Abishah)
** [[Book of Joshua (Samaritan)|''Samaritan Chronicle'', The Chronicle of Joshua]] (Israel during the time of divine favor) (4th century, in Arabic and Aramaic)
** ''Samaritan Chronicle, [[Elkan Nathan Adler|Adler]]'' (Israel from the time of divine disfavor until the exile)
** ''Samaritan Chronicle,'' [[Abu'l-Fath|The Kitab al-Tarikh of Abu ’l-Fath]] (Historical chronology from Adam to Mohammad)
* '''Halakhic texts'''
** ''Samaritan Halakhic Text'', The Hillukh (Code of Halakha, marriage, circumcision, etc.)
** ''Samaritan Halakhic Text'', the Kitab at-Tabbah (Halakha and interpretation of some verses and chapters from the Torah, written by Abu Al Hassan 12th century CE)
** ''Samaritan Halakhic Text'', the Kitab al-Kafi (Book of Halakha, written by Yosef Al Ascar 14th century CE)
* '''Haggadic Midrash texts'''
** ''Al-Asatir''—legendary Aramaic texts from the 11th and 12th centuries, containing:
*** ''Haggadic Midrash'', Abu'l Hasan al-Suri
*** ''Haggadic Midrash'', Memar Markah—3rd or 4th century theological treatises attributed to ''Hakkam'' Markha
*** ''Haggadic Midrash'', Pinkhas on the Taheb
*** ''Haggadic Midrash'', Molad Maseh (On the birth of Moses)
* '''Liturgical texts'''
** ''Defter'', prayer book of psalms and hymns.{{sfn|Bowman|1977|p=331}}
** ''Samaritan Haggadah''{{sfn|Tsedaḳah|1958|p=}}{{page missing|date=February 2024}}

==See also==
* [[Amram ibn Salameh]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist|2}}

== References ==
* {{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Robert T. |last2=Giles |first2=Terry |title=The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture of the Samaritans |publisher=Hendrickson Publishing |isbn=1-56563-519-1 |year=2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIcWAoiRhgAC&q=Anderson%2C+Robert+T.%3B+Giles%2C+Terry+%282002%29.+The+Keepers%3A+An+Introduction+to+the+History+and+Culture+of+the+Samaritans }}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Bowman |editor1-first=John |title=Samaritan Documents: Relating to their History, Religion, and Life |date=1 January 1977 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |location=Eugene, OR |isbn=978-0-915138-27-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMlJAwAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last1=de Hemmer Gudme |first1=Anne Katrine |title=Before the God in this Place for Good Remembrance: A Comparative Analysis of the Aramaic Votive Inscriptions from Mount Gerizim |date=28 May 2013 |publisher=[[De Gruyter|Walter de Gruyter]] |isbn=978-3-11-030187-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=StMCvsROU1IC}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kiaris |first1=Hippokratis |title=Genes, Polymorphisms, and the Making of Societies: A Genetic Perspective of the Divergence between East and West |date=15 June 2021 |edition=Revised and Extended |publisher=Universal-Publishers |isbn=978-1-62734-345-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LncvEAAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book| title = Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of Their Early Relations | last = Knoppers | first = Gary N. | year = 2013 | author-link = Gary N. Knoppers | publisher = [[Oxford University Press|OUP USA]] | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YAgZUPT6CusC&pg=PA11 | isbn = 978-0-195-32954-4 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Law |first1=Timothy Michael |title=When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible |date=15 August 2013 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-978172-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZoeAAAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite book |last1=Seeligmann |first1=Isaac Leo |title=The Septuagint Version of Isaiah and Cognate Studies |date=2004 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=978-3-16-148372-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHYnIhREtzgC}}
* {{cite book |last1=Powels |first1=Sylvia |editor-last1=Crown |editor-first1=Alan David |title=The Samaritans |date=1989 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=978-3-16-145237-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzo6KAH3FmUC&pg=PA693}}
* {{cite book |last1=Tsedaḳah |first1=Avraham Nur |title=זבח קרבן הפסח: הגדה של פסח, נוסח שומרוני |trans-title=Samaritan Haggada and Pessah Passover |date=1958 |publisher={{lang|he|מוציא לאור לא ידוע}} |location=Tel-Aviv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IesGAQAAIAAJ&q=%D7%96%D7%91%D7%97%20%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%9F%20%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97%20:%20%D7%94%D7%92%D7%93%D7%94%20%D7%A9%D7%9C%20%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97,%20%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%97%20%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99 |language=he}}
* {{cite book |last=Tsedaka |first=Benyamim |year=2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wn8ABo-Fz0C&q=samaritans+gerizim&pg=PR7 |title=The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans |isbn=9780802865199 }}
* {{cite book |last1=VanderKam |first1=James |last2=Flint |first2=Peter |title=The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity |date=10 July 2005 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-567-08468-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBMXnB4CRpUC}}

== Further reading ==
* Anderson, Robert T., Giles, Terry (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=onFolAET0C8C&q=Tradition+kept:+the+literature+of+the+Samaritans "Tradition kept: the literature of the Samaritans"], Hendrickson Publishers.
* {{cite book |last1=Bowman |first1=John |title=The Samaritan Problem: Studies in the Relationships of Samaritanism, Judaism, and Early Christianity |date=4 May 2004 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-0-915138-04-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8ZJAwAAQBAJ}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Bourgel |first1=Jonathan |title=Brethren or Strangers? Samaritans in the Eyes of Second-Century B.c.e. Jews |journal=Biblica |date=2017 |volume=98 |issue=3 |pages=382–408 |jstor=48551595 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48551595 |issn=0006-0887}}
* {{cite book |last=Coggins |first=R. J. |title=Samaritans and Jews: The Origins of Samaritanism Reconsidered |series=Growing Points in Theology |publisher=Basil Blackwell |location=Oxford |year=1975|isbn=978-0-8042-0109-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JvcRAQAAIAAJ }}
* {{cite book |last=Crown |first=Alan David |title=A Bibliography of the Samaritans: Revised Expanded and Annotated |orig-year=1984 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2005|edition=3rd |isbn=0-8108-5659-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Gaster |first=Moses| author-link=Moses Gaster |title=The Samaritans: Their History, Doctrines and Literature |series=The [[Schweich Lectures]] for 1923 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1925}}
* Heinsdorff, Cornel (2003). ''Christus, Nikodemus und die Samaritanerin bei Juvencus. Mit einem Anhang zur lateinischen Evangelienvorlage'' (= Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd. 67), Berlin/New York. {{ISBN|3-11-017851-6}}
* {{cite book |last=Hjelm |first=Ingrid |title=Samaritans and Early Judaism: A Literary Analysis| series=Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 303 |publisher=Sheffield Academic Press |isbn=1-84127-072-5 |year=2000}}
* {{cite book |last=Macdonald |first=John |title=The Theology of the Samaritans|publisher=SCM Press |location=London |series=New Testament Library |year=1964}}
* {{cite book |last=Montgomery |first=James Alan |title=The Samaritans, the Earliest Jewish Sect |orig-year=1907 |series=The [[Bohlen Lectures]] for 1906 |year=2006 |publisher=Wipf & Stock |location=Eugene, Oregon |isbn=1-59752-965-6}}
* {{cite book |editor-last1=Mor |editor-first1=Menachem |editor-last2=Reiterer |editor-first2=Friedrich V. |editor-last3=Winkler |editor-first3=Waltraud |year=2010 |title=Samaritans: Past and Present: Current Studies |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter |series= Studia Samaritana, 5 & Studia Judaica, 53 |isbn=978-3-11-019497-5 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/19357 }}
* {{cite book |last=Pummer |first=Reinhard |title=The Samaritans |publisher=E. J. Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=90-04-07891-6 |year=1987}}
* {{cite book |last=Pummer |first=Reinhard |title=Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism: Texts, Translations and Commentary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dhDlzh--Q2AC&pg=PA123 |year=2002 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |isbn=978-3-16-147831-4}}* {{cite book |last=Thomson |first=J. E. H. |title=Tha Samaritans: Their Testimony to the Religion of Israel|publisher=Oliver and Boyd |location=Edinburgh & London |year=1919}}
* {{cite book |last=Purvis |first=James D. |title=The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Origin of the Samaritan Sect |series=Harvard Semitic Monographs |volume=2 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|year=1968}}
* Zertal, Adam (1989). "The Wedge-Shaped Decorated Bowl and the Origin of the Samaritans". ''Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research'', No. 276. (November 1989), pp.&nbsp;77–84.

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