Second paragraph of third chapter (“The High Priesthood and the Israelite Samaritan Priests”, by Benyamin Tsedaka):

So, for 112 generations the high priesthood was inherited from father to son in the Phinhas family, heads of the Israelite Samaritan People till 1624 CE. Sometimes the high priesthood was inherited by a brother or uncle in the family if there was not a direct successor to the previous High Priest. Sometimes the High Priest appointed his son as his successor and shared with him the duties during his own time of priesthood.

This was a book of essays on random historical topics that I picked up at Eastercon. Unfortunately the first three that I tried were all too boring to read to the end, so I put it down and won’t pick it up again. If you want to, you can get it here.