Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism: Texts, Translations and Commentary

Description

Samaritanism is an outgrowth of Early Judaism that has survived until today. Its origin as a separate religious entity can be traced back to the 2nd/1st centuries B.C.E. Samaritans were found not only in their core-area in and around Shechem-Neapolis (modern Nablus) and on neighboring Mount Gerizim, but also in other parts of Palestine as well as in various other Mediterranean countries. Oppression at the hand of Jews, Christians and Muslims decimated the Samaritan population and obliterated all Samaritan manuscripts written prior to the 10th/11th centuries C.E. For the early period of Samaritanism we must therefore rely on Christian authors. Reinhard Pummer edits Christian Greek and Latin texts about Samaritans and their beliefs and practices, dating from the second century C.E. to the Arab conquests. The passages are quoted in their original language and translated into English. In addition, they are commented on and analyzed in view of their significance for our knowledge of Samaritanism within the wider framework of early Judaism and Christianity. Cover Titel Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction Hegesippus Justin Martyr Tertullian Hippolytus of Rome Origen Eusebius of Caesarea Pseudo-Clementines Didymus the Blind The Pilgrim of Bordeaux Cyril of Jerusalem Epiphanius of Salamis Jerome Philaster Palladius Socrates Scholasticus Sozomen Orosius The Life of Melania the Younger Theodoret of Cyrrhus Procopius of Gaza Zacharias Rhetor Cassiodorus Choricius of Gaza John Malalas Procopius of Caesarea Cyril of Scythopolis Symeon the Stylite the Younger The Life of Jacob the Monk Cosmas Indicopleustes Gregory I John Moschus The Pilgrim of Piacenza Maximus the Confessor John of Antioch Epitome (Ms P) of the Ecclesiastical History of Theodore Anagnostes Chronicon Paschale Anastasius Sinaita John of Damascus John of Nikiu Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem George Syncellus Theophanes Confessor Anastasius Bibliothecarius Photius Eutychius of Alexandria George Cedrenus Nicephorus Callistus Bibliography I. Texts and Translations A. Individual Authors and Anonymous Works B. Collections II. Secondary Literature Indexes Index of Sources 1. Bible and Pseudepigrapha 2. Early Christian Writings 3. Jewish Writings 4. Samaritan Writings 5. Greek and Latin Writings 6. Roman and Byzantine Laws Selected Greek and Hebrew Words and Phrases Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects Acknowledgements