This is the first attempt at a book-length history of the Samaritans, throughout the ages, from Old Testament times right down to the present. Along the way it tries to answer such questions as: Are the Samaritans direct descendants of the Northern Tribes of Israel? Does the Samaritan creed derive from post exilic Judaism? How did Samaritanism influence early Christianity? Are the Samaritans also a nation? What are the causes of their survival?
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Frankfurt a.M.
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Höhe: 21 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
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978-3-631-43642-4 (9783631436424)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Author: Nathan Schur, born in 1923 in Vienna, came in 1934 to Israel. Has studied history, geography and archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Has published (in English) «Jerusalem in pilgrims' accounts», 1980, (in Hebrew), «History of Safed», 1983, «Napoleon's Holy Land Campaign», 1984; «The golden age of Travel literature to the Holy Land», 1986, «History of Jerusalem» (3 vols), 1987, «The book of travellers to the Holy Land», 1988, and some 60 articles.
Contents: The Samaritans in the Old Testament, in the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval and early Ottoman periods and in the 19th and 20th centuries.
