Publisher's Synopsis
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
