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Manasseh
The Samaritans in Kiryat Luza speak Levantine Arabic, while those in Holon primarily speak Israeli Hebrew.
Ephraim
For liturgy, they also use Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic, both of which are written in the Samaritan script.
The most notable theological divide between Jewish and Samaritan doctrine concerns the world's holiest site, which the Jews believe is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and which Samaritans believe is Mount Gerizim near modern Nablus and ancient Shechem
The Samaritan High Priest is the high priest (kohen gadol) of the Samaritan community in the Levant, the office has existed continuously since the time of Aaron, the brother of Moses, and has been held by 133 priests over the last 3400 years. Since 1623/24, the office of high priest has been passed down in a family traced back to Aaron's grandson Itamar. After the death of a high priest, the office passes to the oldest male in that family, unless he has entered into a marriage that disqualifies him from the high priesthood.
One account by Josephus suggests that its office holders are an offshoot of the Zadokite high priests of Jerusalem from around the time of Alexander the Great - Samareis (Σαμαρεῖς) refers to inhabitants of the region of Samaria...
Samaritans call themselves Shamerim (שַמֶרִים), meaning "Guardians/Keepers/Watchers" from Semitic root שמר, which means "to watch, guard"
Modern genetic studies support the Samaritan narrative that they descend from indigenous Israelites. Shen et al. (2004) came up with genetic evidence that Samaritans are closely linked to Cohanim, and therefore can be traced back to an Israelite population prior to the Assyrian invasion of the Israelite Kingdom of Israel in approximately 721 BCE. The annals of Sargon II of Assyria indicate that he deported 27,290 inhabitants of the former kingdom..
The Book of Chronicles records that King Hezekiah of Judah invited members of the tribes of Ephraim, Zebulun, Asher, Issachar and Manasseh to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover after the destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. However, the Samaritans were generally more populous and wealthier than the Judeans in Palestine, until 164 BC
The Dead Sea scrolls' Proto-Esther fragment 4Q550c has an obscure phrase about the possibility of a Kutha(ean)(Kuti) man returning but the reference remains obscure.[47] 4Q372 records hopes that the northern tribes will return to the land of Joseph.
Following the death of Alexander the Great, the area became part of the newly partitioned Ptolemaic Kingdom, which, in one of several wars, was eventually conquered by the neighboring Seleucid Empire.
Samaritan traditions of their history are contained in the Kitab al-Ta'rikh compiled by Abu'l-Fath in 1355
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans
Samaritan woman at the well and the parable of the Good Samaritan
According to the Ottoman censuses of 1525–1526, 25 Samaritan families lived in Gaza, and 29 families lived in Nablus. In 1548–1549, there were 18 families in Gaza and 34 in Nablus.[93] In 1596–1597, there were 8 families in Gaza, 20 in Nablus and 5 in Safed.94
the Danafi / Matari / Marhiv families... Ibrahim al-Danafi, who was also a poet and an author, worked for the Tuqan family
Chaim Abraham Gagin saved the Samaritians from execution/extinction in the 1840's
The censuses of 1922 and 1931 recorded 163 and 182 Samaritans in Palestine, respectively.[100] 147 lived in Nablus,[100] 12 resided in Tulkarm, 12 in Jaffa, and 6 in As-Salt, Transjordan.
Codex Manesse, Gottfried von Neifen
(see Two Horned Priests)
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