Samaritans | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Samaritans


00:04:17 1 Etymology
00:06:33 2 Origins
00:06:42 2.1 Samaritan sources
00:09:55 2.2 Jewish sources
00:14:40 2.3 Dead Sea scrolls
00:15:09 2.4 Assyrian account of the conquest and settlement of Samaria
00:16:57 3 History
00:17:06 3.1 Iron Age
00:18:49 3.2 Persian period
00:22:38 3.3 Hellenic era
00:22:47 3.3.1 Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Hellenization
00:25:02 3.3.2 Hasmonean influence
00:25:49 3.4 Roman period
00:25:58 3.4.1 Early Roman era
00:27:28 3.4.2 Byzantine times
00:30:03 3.5 Middle Ages
00:31:23 3.6 Ottoman rule
00:32:25 3.7 British Mandate
00:32:56 3.8 Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian rule
00:34:00 4 Genetic studies
00:34:09 4.1 Demographic investigation
00:34:48 4.2 Y-DNA and mtDNA comparisons
00:37:56 5 Demographics
00:39:29 5.1 Community survival
00:41:24 5.2 Samaritan origins of Palestinian Muslims in Nablus
00:43:23 6 Samaritanism
00:43:59 6.1 Samaritan Temple
00:45:13 6.2 Religious beliefs
00:46:56 6.3 Relationship to Rabbinic Judaism
00:47:44 6.4 Religious texts
00:49:57 7 Christian sources: New Testament
00:52:39 8 Media
00:53:17 9 See also



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The Samaritans (; Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠠࠌࠝࠓࠩࠉࠌ, translit. Shamerim (שַמֶרִים‬), "Guardians/Keepers/Watchers (of the Torah)") 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, who have links to ancient Samaria (now constituting the majority of the territory known as the West Bank) from the period of their entry into Canaan, while some Orthodox Jews suggest that it was from the beginning of the Babylonian captivity up to the Samaritan polity under the rule of Baba Rabba. Samaritans used to include descendants who ascribed to the Benjamin tribe, but this line became extinct in the 1960s. According to Samaritan tradition, the split between them and the Judean-led Southern Israelites began during the biblical time of the priest Eli when the Southern Israelites split off from the central Israelite tradition, as they perceive it.In the Talmud, a central post-exilic religious text of Rabbinic Judaism, the Samaritans are called Cutheans (Hebrew: כּוּתִים‎, Kutim), referring to the ancient city of Kutha, geographically located in what is today Iraq. In the biblical account, however, Kuthah was one of several cities from which people were brought to Samaria, and they worshiped Nergal. Modern genetics partially support both the claims of the Samaritans and the account in the Hebrew Bible (and Talmud), suggesting that the genealogy of the Samaritans lies in some combination of these two accounts. Genetically, modern Samaritan populations are found to have "much greater affinity" genetically to Jews than to neighbouring Palestinian Arabs. This suggests that the Samaritans remained a genetically isolated population.The Samaritans are adherents of Samaritanism, a religion closely related to Judaism. Samaritans believe that their worship, which is based on the Samaritan Pentateuch, is the true religion of the ancient Israelites from before the Babylonian captivity, preserved by those who remained in the Land of Israel, as opposed to Judaism, which they see as a related but altered and amended religion, brought back by those returning from the Babylonian Captivity. The Samaritans believe that Mount Gerizim was the original Holy Place of Israel from the time that Joshua conquered Canaan. The major issue between Jews and Samaritans has always been the location of the Chosen Place to worship God: The Temple Mount of Moriah in Jerusalem according to the Jewish faith or Mount Gerizim according to the Samaritan faith.Once a large community, the Samaritan population appears to have shrunk significantly in the wake of the bloody suppression of the Samaritan Revolts (mainly in 529 CE and 555 CE) against t ...