Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans.(Brief article)(Book review)
From: Currents in Theology and Mission
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Date: 8/1/2006
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Author: Klein, Ralph W.
Tradition Kept: The Literature of the Samaritans. By Robert T. Anderson and Terry Giles. (Hendrickson, $34.95). This book introduces and prints significant extracts from the major documents of the Samaritan sect. Part One discusses the Samaritan Pentateuch (expanded like some of the Qumran documents, but with additional sectarian readings favoring Gerizim over Jerusalem, avoiding anthropomorphisms when speaking of the deity, and enhancing the status of Moses), the ...
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