Rare Signed CDV Jewish Samaritan High Priest Yaacov ben ben Aaharon Shalma 1880

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Rare Signed CDV Jewish Samaritan High Priest Yaacov ben ben Aaharon Shalma 1880:
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Rare CDV signed in Aramaic by the Samaritan High Priest Yaacov ben ben Aaharon Shalma (1874-1916) circa 1880. The Samaritans are a few people defining themselves as descended from the ancient Israelites, and living in Israel and the West Bank. It is sometimes called the religion of Samaritanism.The Samaritans offer the paradox of being both one of the smallest populations in the world, since they amounted to 712 in 2007 and is one of the oldest with a written history, since their existence is attested to millennium BC Samaria. They dominated the area until the sixth century, in the north of present Israel.Their religion is based on the Pentateuch, such as Judaism. However, unlike the latter, they refuse religious centrality of Jerusalem. Although they appeared before the development of rabbinic Judaism, and that difference is therefore not the cause of their divergence, they do not have rabbis and do not accept the Talmud of Orthodox Judaism. The Samaritans also refused the books of the Hebrew Bible post-Pentateuch (books of the prophets and hagiographers pounds).They do not consider themselves Jews, but as descendants of the ancient Israelites from the ancient kingdom of Samaria. Conversely, Orthodox Jews consider themselves the descendants of foreign populations (settlers Assyrians of antiquity) have adopted an illegitimate version of the Hebrew religion, and as such refuse to consider them as Jews, or even as descendants of ancient Israelites. They are recognized as Jews by the State of Israel.The Samaritan High Priest is the high priest (kohen gadol) of the remaining Samaritan community in the Levant. According to the Samaritan\'s tradition, the office has existed continuously since the time of Aaron, the brother of Moses, and has been held by 132 priests in the last thirty-four centuries. However, the historicity of this claim is disputable; the office itself may go back into the Hellenistic period, which would still make it the oldest, constantly occupied, religious office in the world. One account by Josephus suggests that its office holders are an offshoot of the Zadokite high priests of Jerusalem from around the time of Alexander the Great.The continuous lineage of Samaritan High Priests, descending directly from Aaron, through his son Eleazar, and his son Phinehas, was however disrupted in the early 17th century. In 1624, the last Samaritan High Priest of the line of Eleazar son of Aaron died without male succession, but descendants of Aaron\'s other son, Ithamar, remained and took over the office.Size: 6.5 x 10.5 cm approx

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