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What (who) is Samaritan - definition

ETHNORELIGIOUS GROUP
Cuthean; Samaritan Temple; Hebrew Samaritans; Samaritan; Samaritan people; Shomronim; Cutheans; Genetic studies on Samaritans; Samaritans in the New Testament
  • ''Foreigners eaten by lions in Samaria'', illustration by [[Gustave Doré]] from the 1866 ''La Sainte Bible'', The Holy Bible
  • The current Samaritan High Priest: "Aabed El Ben Asher Ben Matzliach", 133rd generation since Elazar the Son of Aaron The Priest, from the line of Ithamar. In priestly office 2013-present.
  • Samaritans celebrating Passover on Mount Gerizim in the West Bank
  • Samaritan worship center on Mount Gerizim. From a photo c. 1900 by the [[Palestine Exploration Fund]].
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  • Interior of the Synagogue of the Samaritans in Nablus, c. 1920
  • Mosaic from Samaritan synagogue ([[Israel Museum]])
  • Samaritans pray before the Holy Rock on Mount Gerizim.
  • During the entire week following the Feast of the Passover, the Samaritans remain encamped on [[Mount Gerizim]].
On the last day of the encampment, they begin at dawn a pilgrimage to the crest of the sacred mount. Before setting forth on this pilgrimage, however, the men spread their cloths and repeat the creed and the story of the Creation in silence, after which, in loud voice they read the Book of Genesis and the first quarter of the Book of Exodus, ending with the story of the Passover and the flight from Egypt<br />— John D. Whiting<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;''The National Geographic Magazine'', Jan 1920
  • The Samaritan [[mezuzah]] engraved above the front door
  • Ancient inscription in [[Samaritan Hebrew]]. From a photo c. 1900 by the [[Palestine Exploration Fund]].
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  • A Samaritan and the Samaritan Torah
  • [[Sofi Tsedaka]], an Israeli actress from the Samaritan community
  • Yitzhaq ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia, the High Priest of the Samaritans, Nablus, c. 1920

Samaritan         
(Samaritans)
You refer to someone as a Samaritan if they help you when you are in difficulty.
A good Samaritan offered us a room in his house.
N-COUNT
Samaritan         
n. a good Samaritan ('a person who helps those in need')
Samaritan         
¦ noun
1. (usu. good Samaritan) a charitable or helpful person (with reference to Luke 10:33).
2. a member of a people inhabiting Samaria in biblical times, or of the modern community claiming descent from them.
3. the dialect of Aramaic formerly spoken in Samaria.
4. (the Samaritans) (in the UK) an organization which counsels those in distress, mainly through a telephone service.
¦ adjective relating to Samaria or the Samaritans.
Derivatives
Samaritanism noun
Origin
from late L. Samaritanus, from Gk Samareites, from Samareia 'Samaria'.

Wikipedia

Samaritans

Samaritans (; Samaritan Hebrew: ࠔࠠࠌࠝࠓࠩࠉࠌ‎,romanized: Šā̊merīm, transl. Guardians/Keepers [of the Torah]; Hebrew: שומרונים, romanized: Šōmrōnīm; Arabic: السامريون, romanized: as-Sāmiriyyūn) are an ethnoreligious group who originate from the ancient Israelites. They are native to the Levant and adhere to Samaritanism, an Abrahamic and ethnic religion.

Samaritan tradition claims the group descends from the northern Israelite tribes who were not deported by the Neo-Assyrian Empire after the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel. They consider Samaritanism to be the true religion of the ancient Israelites and regard Judaism as a closely related but altered religion. Samaritans also regard Mount Gerizim (near both Nablus and biblical Shechem), and not the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, to be the holiest place on Earth. They attribute the schism between Samaritanism and Judaism to have been caused by Eli creating an alternate shrine at Shiloh, in opposition to Mount Gerizim.

Once a large community, the Samaritan population shrank significantly in the wake of the brutal suppression of the Samaritan revolts against the Byzantine Empire. Mass conversion to Christianity under the Byzantines and later to Islam following the Muslim conquest of the Levant further reduced their numbers. In the 12th century, the Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela estimated that only around 1,900 Samaritans remained in the regions of Palestine and Syria.

As of 2021, the community stood at around 840 individuals, divided between Kiryat Luza on Mount Gerizim and the Samaritan compound in Holon. There are also small populations in Brazil and Sicily and elsewhere. The Samaritans in Kiryat Luza speak Levantine Arabic, while those in Holon primarily speak Israeli Hebrew. For the purposes of liturgy, Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic are used, both written in the Samaritan script. The head of the Samaritan community is the Samaritan High Priest.

Samaritans have a standalone religious status in Israel, and there are occasional conversions from Judaism to Samaritanism and vice versa, largely due to interfaith marriages. While Israel's rabbinic authorities came to consider Samaritanism to be a sect of Judaism, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel requires Samaritans to undergo a formal conversion to Judaism in order to be officially recognized as Halakhic Jews. Rabbinic literature rejected Samaritans unless they renounced Mount Gerizim as the historical Israelite holy site. Samaritans possessing only Israeli citizenship in Holon are drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, while those holding dual Israeli and Palestinian citizenship in Kiryat Luza are exempted from mandatory military service.

Examples of use of Samaritan
1. Just a solitary «good Samaritan» attended the 2'–year–old‘s council–paid funeral service.
2. Good Samaritan kidney donor comes face to face with the stranger she saved 4.
3. The good samaritan is a parable about courage and compassion in unexpected circumstances.
4. "Many Good Samaritan boats on scene are taking off passengers," he said.
5. Mrs Symmons, a hairdresser and onetime Samaritan, had found out he had been cheating on her.