English

English Bahasa Indonesia Deutsch Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Português Svenska Tiếng Việt Türkçe Русский العربية فارسی ไทย 한국어 中文日本語

File:Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim,_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ182651· pop 69· linked from 1,948 articles

Samaritan

Also known as Samaritans

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.

AI overview

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.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

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: Jews and other Semitic-speaking peoples

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Population: 720
Official website: www.the-samaritans.net
Image: Samaritans on Mount Gerizim, West Bank - 20060429.jpg

Show 2 more facts

Commons category: Samaritans
OpenStreetMap tag: denomination=samaritan

Sources (2)

via Wikidata · CC0

~73 min read

Article

43 sections

Contents

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

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.