Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Thomas L. Thompson" <tlt AT teol.ku.dk>]

Ingrid Hjelm (The Samaritans and Early Judaism 2000 and Jerusalem's Rise to 
Sovereignty 2004) argues that Samaritans and Jews were two parallel 
developments. The Samaritans also have their own independent chronicle 
tradition, including a Book of Joshua. Recent excavations on Gerizim have 
uncovered a temple from the early 5th/ early 4th centuries (cf. Hjelm in 
Currents 2005).
Thomas
 
Thomas L. Thompson
University of Copenhagen

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        Fra: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org på vegne af Peter Kirk 
        Sendt: lø 19-03-2005 01:22 
        Til: Chris Weimer 
        Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org 
        Emne: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Samaritan-Hebrew Schism
        
        

        On 18/03/2005 19:58, Chris Weimer wrote:
        
        > ...
        > They more than likely split after Yahwism was an established 
religion
        > in the north, since their ideology so clearly revolves around the
        > Torah and Torah only. Most likely it was after the return from the
        > exile and probably about the time lesser deities started to 
disappear
        > (Asherah et al), which would give it around the 3rd century BCE. ...
        
        
        But surely the Torah only ideology suggests a split in a period before
        the other books were widely accepted. Of course there is doubt about
        when that was, but there is a good chance that it was not long after
        they were written, and so perhaps at the time of the Exile or not long
        after.
        
        And how would you answer my evidence for a split before the 
Elephantine
        letters? Additional evidence for a developing split already in the 5th
        century comes from the memoirs of Nehemiah.
        
        What kind of evidence is there for Asherah etc worship in the Samaria
        region up to the 3rd century?
        
        --
        Peter Kirk
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