Tolidah

The Tolidah or Tulida (Samaritan Hebrew: תולידה, romanized: Tūlīdā, lit.'Genealogy') is a Samaritan chronicle that is considered the oldest Samaritan historical work. Written mainly in Samaritan Hebrew, with sections in hybrid Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic, the book provides a concise summary of Samaritan history and the dynasty of Samaritan High Priests up to the Middle Ages.[1]

The Tulida reached its final form in a manuscript copied by Jacob ben Harun in 1859 (1276 AH) with a parallel Arabic translation. Its full title is Ha-Tolida ʿasher mitʿakeh ben ha-Shemarim, which translates to "The Book of Genealogies that the Samaritans have transcribed". Owing to its first publisher, it is sometimes known as the Chronicle Neubauer.[2][3]

  1. ^ Ze'ev Safrai, "The Land in Samaritan Literature", in Seeking out the Land: Land of Israel Traditions in Ancient Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Literature (200 BCE – 400 CE) (Leiden: Brill, 2018), p. 337>
  2. ^ Paul Stenhouse, "Samaritan Chronicles", in Alan David Crown (ed.), The Samaritans (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1989), pp. 218–65, at 218–19.
  3. ^ Magnar Kartveit, The Origin of the Samaritans (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 24–27.

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