הפולמוס היהודי-שומרוני על תחום היישוב השומרוני בתקופות ההלניסטית והחשמונאית לאור מגילות קומראן והספרות החיצונית

The task of reconstruction of Samaritan history in antiquity is far from simple. This essay suggests that a critical reading of some anti-Samaritan Jewish traditions in the Pseudepigrapha and in the Qumran scrolls reveals a major component of Samaritan identity during this period: the territorial component. At the heart of the stories relating controversies about Joseph's successors, and the traditions surrounding the story of the massacre at Shechem and what followed when Jacob went to Beth-El (Gen. 34–35), are Jewish-Samaritan controversies. Recently, scholarly opinion has shifted and accepts the notion that at least some of these traditions were Samaritan in origin and that later Jewish authors responded to these traditions, which were grounded in Samaritan territorial notions.