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  • From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • To: lizfried AT umich.edu, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Genesis JEDP ???
  • Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:27:54 EDT


In a message dated 9/4/2000 10:04:17 AM Central Standard Time,
lizfried AT umich.edu writes:


<< Just curious, what is the evidence for a Samaritan temple
in the Elephantine papyri??
thanks,
>>

The 5th century b.c.e. Elephantine papyri include letters requesting help to
build a temple from both the Samaritan and Jewish priests (CAP, 30), implying
an already existing schism. Indeed the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu’l Fath
claims that Zerubbabel and Sanballat, subsequent leaders of the Jewish and
Samaritan communities, were already feuding about the appropriate location of
the restored temple while still in Babylon (Stenhouse 1985:89–95). The
Persian king, “Surdi,” likely Darius spelled backward, ruled in favor of
Sanballat and sent him home to Mt. Gerizim with funds to construct the altar
and by implication the temple.

Freedman, David Noel, ed., The Anchor Bible Dictionary, s.v. "Samaritans",
(New York: Doubleday) 1997, 1992.

gfsomsel




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