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Like other non-Muslims in the empire, such as Jews, Samaritans were often considered to be People of the Book and were guaranteed religious freedom. [91] Their minority status was protected by the Muslim rulers, and they had the right to practice their religion, but as dhimmi, adult males had to pay the jizya or "protection tax". This however ...
This was followed by the apostolic visitation of Peter and John, who were sent by the elders in Jerusalem to lay hands upon the baptized Samaritans so that they would receive the Holy Spirit. [ 3 ] By the end of the second century CE, the original Samaritan Christian community had disbanded and was lost to history.
I’m still processing it,” Mimms said. As a member of the Army reserves in the 1970s, he trained as a basic field medic and went on emergency runs responding to car and motorcycle accidents.
The Samaritans preserve a form of the proto-Hebraic script, conserve the institution of a high priesthood, and the practice of slaughtering and eating lambs on Passover eve. They celebrate Pesach , Shavuot , and Sukkot , [ 20 ] but use a different mode from that employed in Judaism in order to determine the dates annually.
Samaritans include only the Pentateuch in their biblical canon. [8] They do not recognize divine authorship or inspiration in any other book in the Jewish Tanakh. [9] A Samaritan Book of Joshua partly based upon the Tanakh's Book of Joshua exists, but Samaritans regard it as a non-canonical secular historical chronicle. [10]
Dositheos (occasionally also known as Nathanael, [1] both meaning "gift of God") was a Samaritan religious leader. He was the founder of a Samaritan sect often assumed to be Gnostic in nature, and is reputed to have known John the Baptist, and been either a teacher or a rival of Simon Magus.
Samaritans adhere to a version of the Torah, known as the Samaritan Pentateuch, which differs from the Masoretic text in some respects. Sometimes, it differs from the Masoretic text in important ways, and to a lesser extent, it also differs from the Septuagint. The Samaritans do not regard the Tanakh as an accurate
Luke's favorable treatment of Samaritans is in line with the favorable treatment elsewhere in the book of the weak and of outcasts, generally. [21] In John, Jesus has an extended dialogue with a Samaritan woman, and many Samaritans come to believe in him. [22] In Matthew, he instructs his disciples not to preach to Gentiles or in Samaritan cities.