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The Samaritans attribute their schism with the Jews to Eli, who was a High Priest of Israel around the 11th century BCE; in accordance with Samaritan beliefs, he is accused of establishing a religious shrine in Shiloh in opposition to the establishment of the original shrine on Mount Gerizim.
The relationship between Jews and Samaritans only further deteriorated with time. By the time of Jesus , Samaritans and Jews deeply disparaged one another, as evinced by Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan .
The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant originating from the Israelites (or Hebrews) of the Ancient Near East.. Ancestrally, Samaritans claim descent from the Tribe of Ephraim and Tribe of Manasseh (two sons of Joseph) as well as from the Levites, [1] who have links to ancient Samaria from the period of their entry into Canaan, while some Orthodox Jews suggest that it was from ...
The 2004 article on the genetic ancestry of the Samaritans by Shen et al. concluded from a sample comparing Samaritans to several Jewish populations, all currently living in Israel—representing the Beta Israel, Ashkenazi Jews, Iraqi Jews, Libyan Jews, Moroccan Jews, and Yemenite Jews, as well as Israeli Druze and Palestinians—that "the ...
The antagonism between Samaritans and Jews is important in understanding the Bible's New Testament stories of the "Samaritan woman at the well" and "Parable of the Good Samaritan". The modern Samaritans, however, see themselves as co-equals in inheritance to the Israelite lineage through Torah, as do the Jews, and are not antagonistic to Jews ...
Some Jews regarded the Samaritans as foreigners and their attitude was often hostile, although they shared most beliefs, while many other Jews accepted Samaritans as either fellow Jews or as Samaritan Israelites. [2] [3] [4] The two communities seem to have drifted apart in the post-exilic period. [5]
The paradox of a disliked outsider such as a Samaritan helping a Jew is typical of Jesus' provocative parables, [51] [7] and is a deliberate feature of this parable. [53] In the Greek text, the shock value of the Samaritan's appearance is enhanced by the emphatic Σαμαρίτης, Samaritēs at the beginning of the sentence in verse 33. [7]
By the late 2nd century BCE, the Jews and Samaritans permanently split after a Hasmonean king destroyed a Samaritan temple at Mount Gerizim; before that the Samaritans seem to have regarded themselves as part of the wider Jewish community, but afterwards they denounced the Jerusalem temple as anathema to Yahweh. [28] [29]