Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition

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.

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Ingrid Hjelm is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Copenhagen, former Director of the Palestine History and Heritage Project (2014-2017), and general editor of the Copenhagen International Seminar series (2011-). She is the author of The Samaritans and Early Judaism (2000) and Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty (2004) in addition to a considerable number of articles within the field of Samaritan studies, the history of ancient Palestine, Israel, and Judaea, and the Hebrew Bible. She has coauthored with K. Whitelam, T.L. Thompson, N.P. Lemche, and Z. Muna, New Information about the History of Ancient Palestine (Arabic; 2004); and with T.L Thompson, The Ever Elusive Past (2019). She has coedited with A.K. de Hemmer Gudme, Myths of Exile (2015); with T.L. Thompson, History, Archaeology and the Bible Forty Years after 'Historicity' (2016), and Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity (2016); and with H. Taha, I. Pappe, and T.L. Thompson, the first volume of the Palestine History and Heritage project: A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine (2019). Hjelm has been awarded the University of Copenhagen's Gold Medal in 1997 and the Samaritan Medal for Peace and Humanitarian Achievement in 2011 for her contribution to Samaritan studies.