This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, which explore the history and tradition of the ancient relationship between Samaritans and Jews.

Part 1 Methods, Traditions, and History 1. Cult Centralization as a Device of Cult Control? 2. History of Palestine With and Without the Bible: An Introduction 3. Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History 4. Changing Paradigms: Judaean and Samarian Histories in Light of Recent Research 5. Yahweh's Chosen Place: Temple Ideology and Historical (Re)construction 6. Tribes, Genealogies, and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible 7. From History's Non-Jewish Israel to Tradition's and Scholarship's "The Ancient, the New, and the Newest Israel" Part 2 Samaritan and Jewish Pentateuchs 8. Portraits of Moses in the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Fourth-Century Samaritan Midrash Memar or Tibat Marqah 9. "The Pentateuch That the Samaritans Chose": Modern Fallacies Regarding the Origins and Characteristics of the Samaritan Pentateuch 10. Northern Perspectives in Deuteronomy and Its Relation to the Samaritan Pentateuch 11. So-Called Deuteronomic Addenda in SP Numbers 10-14 and 20-27. Where Do They Belong? Part 3 Studies in Bible and Tradition 12. Whose Bible Is It Anyway?: Ancient Authors, Medieval Manuscripts, and Modern Perceptions 13. Samaria, Samaritans, and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible 14. "Who Is My Neighbor?": Implicit Use of Old Testament Stories and Motifs in Luke's Gospel 15. Simon Magus in Patristic and Samaritan Sources: The Growth of a Tradition 16. "Coming From Harran". The Role of Harran in Near Eastern, Biblical, and Samaritan Literature 17. Josephus in the Tents of Shem and Japhet. The Status of Ancient Authors in Josephus' Treatise Against Apion 1.1-218 18. Exile as Pilgrimage? 19. The Coming of a "Prophet Like You" in Ancient Literature