Samaritan
Sign in to saveSamaritans (; ; ; ), 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 region of ancient Israel and Judah. They are adherents of Samaritanism, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion that developed alongside Judaism.
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Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group descended from ancient Hebrews and Israelites who originated in Samaria, a historical region of ancient Israel and Judah. They practice Samaritanism, a monotheistic religion in the Abrahamic tradition that developed separately from Judaism.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Samaritans
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- smp
- Ethnic group.image
- 300px
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Samaritans marking Passover on Mount Gerizim, near modern Nablus and ancient Shechem, 2006
- Ethnic group.population
- ≈900 (2024)
- Ethnic group.region1
- (Holon)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 460 (2021)
- Ethnic group.region2
- West Bank (Kiryat Luza)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 380 (2021)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Spoken:Modern Hebrew and Levantine ArabicLiturgy:Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic
- Ethnic group.religions
- Samaritanism
- Ethnic group.related_groups
Article
43 sectionsContents
- Attributions
- Etymology and terminology
- Origins
- Samaritan version
- Biblical versions
- Josephus's version
- Dead Sea scrolls
- Modern scholarship
- History
- Persian period
- Hellenistic period
- Foreign rule
- Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Hellenization
- Destruction of the temple
- Diaspora
- Roman period
- Byzantine period
- Early Islamic period
- Crusader period
- Ayyubid and Mamluk rule
- Ottoman rule
- Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian rule
- Genetic studies
- Samaritan lineages
- Y-DNA and mtDNA comparisons
- Autosomal DNA
- Demographics
- Figures
- Community survival
- Samaritan origins of Palestinian Muslims in Nablus and its vicinity
- Samaritanism
- Location of sacrifice
- Religious beliefs
- Relationship to Rabbinic Judaism
- Religious texts
- Christian sources: New Testament
- Notable Samaritans
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
Samaritans (; ; ; ), 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 region of ancient Israel and Judah. They are adherents of Samaritanism, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion that developed alongside Judaism.
The Samaritans identify as descendants of the Israelite tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and the priestly tribe of Levi. They maintain that they represent the most authentic continuation of the Mosaic covenant. In contemporary scholarship, they are generally understood as a community that crystallized during the Persian and Hellenistic periods out of populations connected to the former northern Kingdom of Israel in the aftermath of the Assyrian captivity, developing in close but often contentious relationship with the Jewish people, who emerged primarily from the population of the southern Kingdom of Judah.