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See Pummer, “Nablus und Tel Aviv—Tradition und Moderne,” in Geisteshaltung und Umwelt: Festschirft zum 65. Geburtstag von Manfred Büttner, ed. W. Kreisel, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften und Religion/Umwelt-Forschung, 1 (Aachen: Alano-Verlag, 1988), pp. 405–414.

See Encyclopaedia Judaica Decennial Yearbook (Jerusalem: Keter, 1982), p. 543.

See now Leah Di Segni, “The Church of Mary Theotokos on Mount Gerizim: The Inscriptions,” in Bottini et al. Christian Archaeology in the Holy Land, pp. 343–350.

On the church, see Pummer, Samaritans, pp. 4, 9, 33, and Magen, “The Church of Mary Theotokos on Mount Gerizim,” in Christian Archaeology in the Holy Land, New Discoveries: Essays in Honour of Virgilio C. Corbo, ed. G.C. Bottini, L. Di Segni and E. Alliata, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Collectio Maior, 36 (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1990), pp. 333–342.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 11.302–347, 13.255–256; The Jewish War 1.63.

The excavator, Yitzhak Magen, will publish his findings in a monograph. For the time being, see his articles “A Fortified Town of the Hellenistic Period on Mount Gerizim,” Qadmoniot 75–76 (1986), pp. 91–101 (in Hebrew) and “Mount Gerizim—A Temple City,” Qadmoniot 91–92 (1990), pp. 70–96 (in Hebrew).

This hypothesis would also account for the silence of the author of the Tolidah concerning the Abisha Scroll. The scroll would have been known to him, but since he would have known its origin he would hardly have wanted to attribute it to Abisha in his chronicle.

If there was, he wrote nothing else known to us. See Crown, “Index of Scribes, Witnesses, Owners and Others Mentioned in Samaritan Manuscripts”, BJRL 68.2 (1986), pp. 317–372.

Kedar, “The Frankish Period,” pp. 89–90.