The Samaritans, the Earliest Jewish Sect: Their History, Theology and Literature

· Wipf and Stock Publishers
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This volume began as the John Bohlen Lectures in 1906.

Contents
1 The Re-discovery of the Samaritans
2 The Land of Samaria and the City of Shechem
3 The Modern Samaritans
4 The Origin of the Samaritan Sect
5 The Samaritans under the Hellenic Empire
6 The Samaritans under the Roman Empire
7 The Samaritans under Islam
8 The Geographical Distribution of the Samaritans
9 The Samaritans in the Apocryphal Literature,
the New Testament, and Josephus
10 The Samaritans in the Talmuds and Other
Rabbinic Literature
11 The Talmudic Booklet, the Masseket Kutim
12 The Theology of the Samaritans
13 The Samaritan Sects: Gnosticism
14 The Languages and Literature of the Samaritans

About the author

James Alan Montgomery (1866-1949) was an Episcopal priest and Professor of Old Testament and Semitics, first at the Philadelphia Divinity School and then at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to commentaries on the boks of Kings and Daniel, he is the author of numerous works, including 'Arabia and the Bible,' 'Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur,' 'The Ras Shamra Mythological Texts,' and 'The Origin of the Gospel according to St. John.'

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