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Samaritans

Samaritans (/səˈmærɪtənz/; Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠠࠌࠝࠓࠩࠉࠌ, romanized: Šā̊merīm; Hebrew: שומרונים, romanized: Šomronim; Arabic: السامريون, romanized: as-Sāmiriyyūn), often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. They are indigenous to Samaria, a historical…

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Israel (Neve Pinchas, Holon)
460 (2021)
Palestine (Kiryat Luza, West Bank[a])
380 (2021)

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related to Religious texts · 59
Samaritans → Abishah, Abu, Abu Al Hassan, Abu'l Hasan, Adam, Adler, Al-Asatir, Arabic, Aramaic, Book, CE, Chronicle, Code, Creation, Defter, Ethiopian, Fath, Greek LXX, Haggadic Midrash, Hagiographical
related to Christian sources: New Testament · 46
Samaritans → Acts, Apostles, Apostles Peter, Barnabas, Christ, English, Galilee, Gentile, Gentiles, God, Good News, Good Samaritan, Gospel, He, Holy Spirit, Israel, Israelites, Jacob, Jacob's Well, Jerusalem
related to Religious beliefs · 41
Samaritans → Ancient Hebrew, Deuteronomy, Gemara, God, Hebrew, High Priesthood, Israel's God, Jerusalem, Jewish Masoretic Text, Jewish Rabbinical, Jewish Torah, Many Samaritans, Marqah, Mishnah, Moses, Mount Gerizim, New Year, Other, Paradise, Passover
related to Roman period · 41
Samaritans → Abrahamic, According, Although, Ammia, Athens, Cana, CE, Cerialis, Christian, Delos, Despite, During, First Jewish, Flavia Neapolis, Gerizim, Good Samaritan, Hebrew, Hellenistic, Herod Archelaus, Herodian Tetrarchy
related to Y-DNA and mtDNA comparisons · 40
Samaritans → Ashkenazi Jews, Assyrian, Babylonian, Beta Israel, Cohanim, Cohen, Danafi, Exilic Jewish, Haplogroup J-M267, However, In, Iraqi Jews, Israel, Israeli Druze, Israelite, J-M172, J1, J2, Jewish, Jewish Y-chromosomes
related to Origins · 39
Samaritans → Ancestrally, Antiquities, Ark, Babylonian, Benjamin, Covenant, Cuthaeans, Cutheans, Cuthites, Eli, Ephraim, Gerizim, Hebrew Bible, In, In Rabbinic Judaism, Iraq, Israelites, Jerusalem, Jews, John Hyrcanus
related to Samaritan origins of Palestinian Muslims in Nablus and its vicinity · 37
Samaritans → Abbasid, According, Al-Amad, Al-Samri, As, Byzantine, Christians, During, Even, Fatimid Caliphate, Fayyad Altif, Firāsa, Hajjah, Hakim Edict, Islam, Jews, Later, Magged, Manasseh, Maslamani
related to Byzantine period · 35
Samaritans → According, Asclepiades, Bishop Terebinthus, By, Caesarea, Caesarea-based Arcadiani, Christianity, Christians, Chronicon Paschale, Eastern Roman, Edom, God, He, Justa, Justasa, Justasus, King, Mount Gerizim, Neapolis, Palaestinae
related to Samaritanism · 33
Samaritans → According, Biblical, Book, Canaan, Davidic, Ezra, God, Israel, Israelites, It, Jerusalem, Jewish, Joshua, Judaism, Masoretic, Moses, Mount Gerizim, Mount Sinai, Nablus, Samaritan
related to Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian rule · 31
Samaritans → After, As, Ben Amram Street, By, Consequently, During Jordanian, First Intifada, Har Brakha, Holon, In, Israel, Israeli, Israeli President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israeli-Palestinian, Jaffa, Jordanian, Kiryat Luza, Mount Gerizim, Nablus, Oslo Accords

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samaritan samaria israel nablus community mount gerizim jewish also century jerusalem according jews people period high temple time god ce

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SamaritansIsrael (Neve Pinchas, Holon)460 (2021)1.00infobox
SamaritansPalestine (Kiryat Luza, West Bank[a])380 (2021)1.00infobox
Samaritansis aParable of the Good Samaritan0.90text
Samariainstance ofmajor cities0.80text
Megiddo remained largely intactinstance ofmajor cities0.80text
and other sites show a continuity of occupationinstance ofmajor cities0.80text
Emmausinstance ofestablishing themselves in places0.80text
Sha'alaviminstance ofestablishing themselves in places0.80text
droughtsinstance ofhaving been subjected to hardships0.80text
earthquakesinstance ofhaving been subjected to hardships0.80text
persecution by local governorsinstance ofhaving been subjected to hardships0.80text
high taxes on religious minoritiesinstance ofhaving been subjected to hardships0.80text

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