Download or read book Samaritan Documents written by John Bowman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume of documents relating to Samaritan history, religion, and life is intended as a companion to 'The Samaritan Problem', Pittsburgh Monograph Series, Number 4, as giving translations of texts by Samaritan authors mentioned therein. But this is not the only aim of this work. It attempts to make accessible, in English, examples from a variety of Samaritan documents which provide us with a firsthand picture of Samaritan views about their history, their religion, and hopes for the future.