The Samaritans and Early Judaism

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The Samaritans and Early Judaism is written by Ingrid Hjelm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0567260461 (ISBN 10) and 9780567260468 (ISBN 13).

Hjelm examines the various ancient sources mentioning Samaritans, dating from the Persian period to well into the Roman period and emanating from Jewish, Christian, Hellenistic and Samaritan circles. She addresses those issues that can be related to a possible Samaritan-Judaean conflict, and special attention is given to questions about temple, high priests, Levites and prophets, as well as Shechem and Heliopolis. In this radical new investigation, Hjelm points out anachronisms in both the ancient writers and our reading of them and proposes a new understanding of the formation of both Samaritanism and Judaism.