ABSTRACT
Samaritans suffered several persecutions through the centuries. Josephus recorded two such events during the Hellenistic period. The first he dated to the time of Ptolemy I or Ptolemy VI in Alexandria and the second to the time of John Hyrcanus in Shechem and Gerizim. This chapter seeks to answer the question whether these accounts present real persecutions or ancient literary topoi of persecutions.
