Sashai

Comment: This needs at least another one or two reputable academic books as sources. I realize that Bukki has the same references and is in mainspace, but it too should have more. If the content is verifiable, notability should not be an issue, because the content of this article is certainly encyclopaedic.
The other thing this needs is some indication of dating. Nowhere does this draft say even in which century this person lived. Doric Loon (talk) 16:43, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Added the century he lived in, still looking for new sources SiliconProphet (talk) 10:17, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
Would one new high quality book source be enough to get this through? MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 17:18, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
I found a breakthrough by using the spelling Sheshai, there are a lot more available sources now MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 23:41, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

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Sashai ben Abishua (Sheshai?) was the 1st Samaritan High Priest^[1]^[2]. He was a contemporary and rival of the Jewish High Priest Eli of Shiloah.^[3] He lived in the 15th century BC near the time of Moses

The succession of high priests explicitly mentioned in Samarian scripture goes from Moses to Sheshai I, 5th generation from Aaron through teaching of a rite of reciting the name of God, which was more in depth than merely reciting the four letters of the Tetragrammaton^[4]

He may be linked to Sheshai son of Anak. Anak coming from the Greek word Anax meaning king or shaman king^[5] As such he may also be linked to the Canaanite king Sheshi of Egypt.^[6]^[7]

The details of his life and even his existence are unclear, Samaritans credit him as their first high priest, but he rather seems to be the first in their list to deviate from the Israelite list of high priests, being omitted in the Jewish list rather than the line deviating from that point^[8].

The Samaritan and Jewish lists only finally deviate in separate directions at Uzzi who is succeeded by Zeheraiah in the Jewish list, and Sashai II in the Samaritan list^[8]

Patrilineal descent
Abraham Isaac Jacob Levi Kohath Amram Aaron Eleazar Phinehas Abishua

References

^ Gaster, M. "The Chain of Samaritan High Priests: A Synchronistic Synopsis: Published for the First Time." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1909, pp. 393–420. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25210743. Accessed 21 Sept. 2020.
^ Pummer, Reinhard (2018-07-09), "An Update of Moses Gaster's "Chain of Samaritan High Priests"", The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans, De Gruyter, pp. 149–172, doi:10.1515/9783110581416-009, ISBN 9783110581416, S2CID 165482339, retrieved 2021-09-26
^ Smith, John (2017-09-21). "On the Y-DNA of the Lost Tribes of Israel". doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5422696.v7. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Lowy, S. (1977). The Principles of Samaritan Bible Exegesis. Brill Archive. p. 276. ISBN 978-90-04-04925-3.
^ Niesiołowski-Spanò, Łukasz (1 January 2020). "The Levites, *ra-wo, λᾶός / λαοί – A new proposal for lexical and historical relationship". Biblica 101,3 (2020), 444–452. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
^ Kempinski, Aharon (1983). Syrien und Palästina (Kanaan) in der letzten Phase der Mittelbronze IIB-Zeit (1650-1570 v. Chr.). Wiesbaden: In Kommission bei O. Harrassowitz. pp. 69–74. ISBN 3-447-02295-7. OCLC 10684599.
^ Donald B. Redford (1992). Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in ancient times. Internet Archive. Princeton University Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-691-03606-9.
^ ^a ^b Robertson, Edward (1950). The Old Testament Problem: A Re-investigation, Together with Two Other Essays. Manchester University Press.

Preceded by Abishua (as High Priest of Israel)	Samaritan High Priest	Succeeded by Bukki (as High Priest of Israel)

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[1] Gaster, M. "The Chain of Samaritan High Priests: A Synchronistic Synopsis: Published for the First Time." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1909, pp. 393–420. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25210743. Accessed 21 Sept. 2020.

[2] Pummer, Reinhard (2018-07-09), "An Update of Moses Gaster's "Chain of Samaritan High Priests"", The Bible, Qumran, and the Samaritans, De Gruyter, pp. 149–172, doi:10.1515/9783110581416-009, ISBN 9783110581416, S2CID 165482339, retrieved 2021-09-26

[3] Smith, John (2017-09-21). "On the Y-DNA of the Lost Tribes of Israel". doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5422696.v7. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[4] Lowy, S. (1977). The Principles of Samaritan Bible Exegesis. Brill Archive. p. 276. ISBN 978-90-04-04925-3.

[5] Niesiołowski-Spanò, Łukasz (1 January 2020). "The Levites, *ra-wo, λᾶός / λαοί – A new proposal for lexical and historical relationship". Biblica 101,3 (2020), 444–452. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

[6] Kempinski, Aharon (1983). Syrien und Palästina (Kanaan) in der letzten Phase der Mittelbronze IIB-Zeit (1650-1570 v. Chr.). Wiesbaden: In Kommission bei O. Harrassowitz. pp. 69–74. ISBN 3-447-02295-7. OCLC 10684599.

[7] Donald B. Redford (1992). Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in ancient times. Internet Archive. Princeton University Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-691-03606-9.

[:0-8] Robertson, Edward (1950). The Old Testament Problem: A Re-investigation, Together with Two Other Essays. Manchester University Press.

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