Samaritans Through the Ages - (Studia Samaritana) by József Zsengellér (Hardcover)

About the Book

The very broad spectrum of current Samaritan scholarship, into which this volume offers insight, spans the history of the Samaritan community, the text of the Samaritan Pentateuch and its Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic commentaries, linguistic, text-cri

Book Synopsis

The volume contains the edited papers presented at the 10th international conference of the Société d'Études Samaritaines held in Budapest in 2022. It is dedicated to the famous Hungarian rabbi and scholar Samuel Kohn (1841-1920) whose relevance in Samaritan studies was commemorated by Abraham Tal.
The articles discuss the most recent questions of Samaritan research in five different fields. Historical topics and Samaritan synagogue mosaics are investigated by Ingrid Hjelm, Innocent Himbaza and Reinhard Pummer. Greek inscriptions and Aramaic documents are studied by Magnar Kartveit, Andreas Lehnardt, and József Zsengellér. Arabic Torah interpretations, and historical documents are delt with by Jasper Bernhofer, Leonhard Becker and Daniel Bousek. Analyses of Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic linguistic issues and of Samaritan translation techniques are presented by Moshe Florentin, Christian Stadel, Nehemia Gordon, David Hammidovič, Patrick Pouchelle and Phil Reid. Studies on Samaritan manuscript writings and collections are presented by Evelyn Burkhardt, Stefan Schorch, Mariia Boichun and Golda Akhiezer.
Leading scholars and young new colleagues enrich the various fields of Samaritan studies with new findings, insights ad implications.

About the Author

József Zsengellér, Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies, Budapest, Hungary.