Discoveries on Mount Gerizim and in Qumran demonstrate that the final editing of the Hebrew Bible coincides with the emergence of the Samaritans as one of the different types of Judaisms from the last centuries BCE. This book discusses this new scholarly situation.

Scholars working with the Bible, especially the Pentateuch, and experts on the Samaritans approach the topic from the vantage point of their respective fields of expertise. Earlier, scholars who worked with Old Testament/Hebrew Bible studies mostly could leave the Samaritan material to experts in that area of research, and scholars studying the Samaritan material needed only sporadically to engage in Biblical studies.

This is no longer the case: the pre-Samaritan texts from Qumran and the results from the excavations on Mount Gerizim have created an area of study common to the previously separated fields of research. Scholars coming from different directions meet in this new area, and realize that they work on the same questions and with much common material.This volume presents the current state of scholarship in this area and the effects these recent discoveries have for an understanding of this important epoch in the development of the Bible.

• Table of Contents 8
• Qumran, Mount Gerizim, and the Books of Moses 10
• Overcoming the Sub-Deuteronomism and Sub-Chronicism of Historiography in Biblical Studies: The Case of the Samaritans¹ 26
• Textual Harmonization in the Five Books of the Torah: A Summary 40
• Samaritan Studies – Recent Research Results 66
• Cult Centralization and the Publication of the Torah Between Jerusalem and Samaria 88
• Competing Attitudes toward Samaria in Chronicles and Second Zechariah 102
• The Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah as a Testimony for the Competition Between the Temples in Jerusalem and on Mt. Gerizim in the E 124
• Ethnic Fiction and Identity-Formation: A New Explanation for the Background of the Question of Intermarriage in Ezra-Nehemiah¹ 142
• An Update of Moses Gaster’s “Chain of Samaritan High Priests” 158
• Bibliography 182
• List of Contributors 204
• Index of Modern Authors 206
• Index of Ancient Texts 210
• Index of Subjects 218