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The keepers: an introduction to the history and culture of the Samaritans

Book information

Publisher
Hendrickson
Year
2002
ISBN
1565635191
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2033407 bytes)
Pages
165\182
Topic
History
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-03-07 22:52:58

Description

The Keepers is a concise and informative introduction to the history and religion of the Samaritans, that branch of the Israelite–Jewish religion that has endured from antiquity to the present among a tiny minority in Palestine and Israel. The book is written in an engaging style that will appeal to a public that would not read specialized works on the subject. At the same time, the information contained in the work is reliable and the authors are careful in their discussions of unsolved (and often unsolvable) issues. In an epilogue, Anderson and Giles underline that there remains a “host of unanswered questions about the history and culture of the Samaritan community” and that this book is “only a beginning”.

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