Samaritan High Priest - Wikipedia
The Samaritan High Priest (in Samaritan Hebrew: haKa’en haGadol; in their native Palestinian Arabic: الكاهن الأكبر, romanized: al-Kāhin al-Akbar) is the High Priest (in Modern Israeli Hebrew: haKohen haGadol) of the Samaritan community in the Holy Land, who call themselves the Israelite Samaritans.
High Priests - Israelite Samaritan Information Institute
The lineage of the 112 Samaritan High Priests, leaders of the Israelites and the Israelite Samaritans, includes two of the High Priests of Damascus, Itamar ben Amram and Yusef ben Azzi. Samaritans (and collectors) assign high value to Pentateuch manuscripts scribed by High Priests of the Pinhas family.
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The Samaritan High Priest is the head of the Samaritan religion. They were originally the same person as the Jewish High Priest until a disagreement in succession led to the two splitting apart Pummer's list
Samaritans - Wikipedia
According to Samaritan tradition, the position of the community's leading Samaritan High Priest has continued without interruption over the course of the last 3600 years, beginning with the Hebrew prophet Aaron. Since 2013, the 133rd Samaritan High Priest has been Aabed-El ben Asher ben Matzliach.
The Samaritan High Priests
May 16, 2014 · The current High Priest is Abed-el ( Servant of God) is the 133 th High Priest since Priest Elazar b. Aharon. He took over the High Priesthood office after the funeral of the late High Priest Aaron son of Ab Hisada (blessed be he).
Aabed-El ben Asher ben Matzliach - Wikipedia
Aabed-El ben Asher ben Matzliach (Samaritan Hebrew: ࠏࠢࠁࠝࠃࠀࠢࠋ ࠁࠣࠍ ࠀࠟࠔࠝࠓ ࠁࠣࠍ ࠌࠣࠑࠋࠪࠉࠇࠣ ʾĀbədʾēl ban ʾĀ̊šər ban Maṣlīyaʾ), also known as Abdullah Wassef Tawfiq, [1] born in 1935 in Nablus, is the current Samaritan High Priest. He assumed office on 19 April 2013.
Samaritans | Middle East And North Africa — Facts and Details
Samaritan priests trace their hereditary order of high priests back to Aaron, the brother of Moses. The Samaritans have strict rules about diet, sex and the Sabbath. They have their own version of the Torah and holy days that are pretty similar but not exactly the same as those of Jews.
The Samaritan Temple - Bible History
Roughly 200 years after the Samaritan temple was built it would be destroyed by a Jewish high priest by the name of John Hycranus. Josephus accounts the following: “Hycranus now rebelled against the Macedonians (the Greeks) and no longer had dealings with them.
Inside the Samaritan high priest’s fruity sukkah, literally
Oct 19, 2016 · The Samaritan high priest, Abdullah Wassef Tawfiq, stands with his brother Husney Cohen inside his living room with a home-made ‘sukkah’ made from fresh fruit for the holiday of Tabernacles...
List of high priests of Israel - Wikipedia
The Samaritans insert Sashai as the son of Abishua and father of Bukki. [2] Although Abishua, Bukki and Uzzi are not directly attested as high priests, this portion of the genealogy is assumed by other sources to give the succession of the high priesthood from father to son.