Steven Fine is professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University and director of the university’s Israelite Samaritans Project. When my oldest son was in fourth grade, he was studying in a ...

Samaritans are not Jews but are part of “Am Yisrael,” the Israelite people. Each Samaritan, Tsedaka said, can trace back to which tribe — Ephraim, Menasseh or Levi — he or she comes from.

Q&A with Jewish scholar Steven Fine on the history of a biblical minority. The Good Samaritan shows up in the Gospels as an apparent exception to his people, since he’s the “good” one. Then ...

The Samaritans represent one of the oldest religious communities in the world, often overshadowed by their Jewish and Christian neighbors. This video outlines their unique traditions, sacred texts, ...

Moshe Alafi's documentary, "The Samaritans," traces the history of an ancient (but not necessarily Jewish) people.

The story Jesus offered in reply to the scholar’s question is well-known to many inside and outside of Christian circles. The ...

Rejecters Rejected. To Sunday-school boys, Samaritan is a name synonymous with “good.” But to the Jews of Jesus’ day, Samaritans were a despised people. In the 8th century B.C. the Samaritan ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 4 in Year C is Luke 10.25-37, most commonly known as the Parable of the Good ...

Included in this list is the uniquely Samaritan 10th commandment (at the heart of the Jewish/Samaritan schism) to worship God on Mt. Gerizim, the mountain overlooking the city of Nablus in the ...

March 12, 2023, The Third Sunday of Lent: The Samaritan woman, socially marginalized by her impurity according to the Law, becomes a model for all Christians.

The relationship between ancient Jews and their Samaritan neighbors was hostile, so people listening to the story would have been shocked that the hero was a Samaritan.

But Samaritans were viewed as “half-breeds” whose blood and worship were no longer Jewish, and therefore looked down upon by the Jews.