Samaritan High Priest
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The Samaritan High Priest is the High Priest of Israel for the Samaritans.
Family of the Samaritan High Priests, 1876. To the left is a scribe named Shalabi, to the right are Isaac, the son of the High Priest Amram ben Shalma, then Abisha, the son of Amram's brother Fīnās, and finally ʿUzzi, son of the High Priest Yaʿqob ben Aharon ben Shalma, the son of Amram's brother Aharon.
Jacob I
Maṣliaḥ (or Abishah III)
Amram IX
Samaritan Pentateuch
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The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah, is the sacred scripture of the Samaritans. Written in the Samaritan script, it dates back to one of the ancient versions of the Torah that ex
Samaritan High Priest
…mentioned by Abū l'Fatḥ in the 14th century and, in a very poor state of preservation, is kept by the Samaritan community as a precious possession. The Abisha Scroll is considered the original of all Samaritan Torah scrolls. 1 Sashai ben Abishua 2 Bakhi ben Sashai probably identical to the Jewish High Priest Bukki…
Detail of the Samaritan Pentateuch's oldest scroll, written in Samaritan Hebrew (Nablus, c. 1900–1920)
Samaritan and the Samaritan Torah
Quotations from the Torah in Samaritan script. Niche from a Samaritan's house in Damascus, Syria (15th–16th century CE). Islamic Art Museum, Berlin.
Samaritan Torah scrolls preserved in the Samaritan synagogue on Mount Gerizim