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Contents Introduction 1 and Persian Periods Part One : Samaria during the Assyrian , Babylonian , Samaria and Jerusalem during the Persian Period / Frank Moore Cross 45 The 'Samaritans' in the Assyrian Sources / Israel Eph ' al 34 Samaria / Mordechai Cogan 28 The Early Biblical Polemic concerning the Residents of Biblical Traditions on Samaritan History / Shemaryahu Talmon 7 and Shraga Qedar 71 The Coins of Samaria in the Persian Period / Ya ' akov Meshorer Samaria / Ephraim Stern 82 A Hoard of Persian Period Bullae from the Vicinity of Part Two : The Samaritans during the Hellenistic Period Scrolls from Qumran / Esther Eshel and Hanan Eshel 129 The Date of the Samaritan Pentateuch in the Light of the Biblical Persian Period / Daniel R . Schwartz 107 On Some Papyri and Josephus' Sources and Chronology for the  אל הספר