Early Christian Authors on Samaritans & Samaritanism: Texts, Translations & Commentary: Texts, Translations and Commentary (Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism, 92). Este artículo no está disponible.Early Christian Authors on Samaritans & Samaritanism: Texts, Translations & Commentary: Texts, Translations and Commentary (Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism, 92)

Samaritanism in an outgrowth of Early Judaism that has survived until today. Its origin as a separate religious entity can be traced back to the 2Ýsuperscript nd¨/1Ýsuperscript st¨ centuries B.C.E. Samaritans were found not only in their core-area in and around Shechem-Neapolis (modern Nablus) and on neighboring Mount Gerizim, but also in other parts of Palestine as well as in various other Mediterranean countries.
Oppression at the hand of Jews, Christians and Muslims decimated the Samaritan population and obliterated all Samaritan manuscripts written prior to the 10Ýsuperscript th¨/11Ýsuperscript th¨ centuries C.E. For the early period of Samaritanism we must therefore rely on Christian authors.

Born 1938; 1967-2004 Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada; currently Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.