Reinhard Pummer's profile is an outside academic account of the Samaritan community, covering its script, scripture, doctrine including the expected Taheb, and its sacred site at Mount Gerizim, written from a critical scholarly standpoint rather than the community's own devotional voice. That outside critical distance, checkable against the primary Samaritan material it describes, is a real methodological choice this atlas records rather than treating as automatically superior. This record has not independently traced further scholarly response to Pummer's specific claims since 2016. Use it for established scholarly facts about Samaritan religion, language and identity; a claim about the community's own current devotional self-understanding needs a source produced from within the tradition.
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Reinhard Pummer's outside academic account of the Samaritan community, covering its script, scripture, doctrine and its sacred site at Mount Gerizim, written from a critical scholarly standpoint rather than the community's own devotional voice. NotesReinhard Pummer's scholarly profile of the Samaritan community, covering its script, scripture, doctrine such as the expected Taheb, and its sacred site at Mount Gerizim. Use for established scholarly facts about Samaritan religion, language and identity; an outside academic account, not the community's own devotional voice.
Citation
AuthorReinhard Pummer
PublisherWilliam B. Eerdmans
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://www.christianbook.com/the-samaritans-a-profile/reinhard-pummer/9780802867681/pd/867681
Source TypeScholarly work
Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Samaritans directly: "Reinhard Pummer's profile is an outside academic account of the Samaritan community, covering its script, scripture, doctrine including the expected Taheb, and its sacred site at Mount Gerizim..."
Claims Backed By This Source (198 claims)
This source backs 198 claims across the atlas. As facts: 146 well-attested. As cited relationships: 14 holds. Plus 38 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Alphabet Letters, 88 claims: 66 well-attested, 22 general references.
- Doctrines, 32 claims: 24 well-attested, 4 holds, 4 general references.
- Scriptures & Texts, 32 claims: 21 well-attested, 8 holds, 3 general references.
- Articles, 20 claims: 17 well-attested, 3 general references.
- Religions, 10 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Subcategories, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cultures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Screen Works, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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