Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing Perspectives 10

This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, that explore the history and tradition of the ancient relationship between Samaritans and Jews.

The book is arranged into three parts: Methods, Traditions, and History; Samaritan and Jewish Pentateuchs; and Studies in Bible and Tradition, each of which is chronologically ordered. It represents a collection of the author’s previous publications on the relationship between Samaritans and Jews, expanding and supplementing the conclusions of her published books. Recent archaeological developments on Mount Gerizim have demonstrated that our paradigms for writing the ancient histories of the kingdoms and provinces of Samaria and Judah in the Iron II, Persian, and Hellenistic periods must change. These developments also affect how we evaluate and read ancient literary traditions, and several chapters offer challenging new perspectives on well-known themes, narratives, and compositions in this subject area.

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing Perspectives 10 will be of interest to students and scholars of biblical studies, theology, comparative religion, the ancient Near East, and in particular, Samaritan and Jewish studies.

Ingrid Hjelm is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Copenhagen, former Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project (2014-17), and general editor of the Copenhagen International Seminar series (2011-). She is the author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem’s Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Palestine, Israel and Judea and the Hebrew Bible. Co-authored with K. Whitelam, T.L. Thompson, N.P. Lemche and Z. Muna, New Information about the History of Ancient Palestine (Arabic; 2004); and with T.L Thompson, The Ever Elusive Past (2019). Co-edited with A.K. de Hemmer Gudme, Myths of Exile (2015), with T.L. Thompson, History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years after ’Historicity’ (2016); Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity (2016); and with H. Taha, I. Pappe and T.L. Thompson, the first volume of the Palestine History and Heritage project: A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine (2019). Hjelm has been awarded the University of Copenhagen’s Gold Medal in 1997 and the Samaritan Medal for Peace and Humanitarian Achievement in 2011 for her contribution to Samaritan studies.