Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
The two corpora of Samaritan religious texts that predate the Middle Ages are the Midrash collection Tibat Marqe and the earliest surviving pieces of Samaritan liturgy, which comprise some fifty Aramaic poems that were authored by the famous Amram Dare, Marqe, and Ninna. They can be dated with relative certainty to the third or fourth century CE. I shall investigate the use of language from the semantic field of kingship in the Aramaic liturgical pieces in order to determine the relationship between heavenly and earthly power reflected in them. Notably, within this small corpus, the rhetorical use of kingship terminology evinces differences. The results will also allow for a comparative Samaritan perspective on the Christian descriptions of messianism in the Samaritan revolts of the fifth and sixth centuries CE.
Period
23 Jul 2025
Event title
Samaritan Studies - SÉS at Fourty : 11th Conference of the Société d’Études Samaritaines