{"id":64268,"date":"2019-10-12T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64268"},"modified":"2023-05-05T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:54:33","slug":"from-samaria-to-samaritans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/from-samaria-to-samaritans\/","title":{"rendered":"From Samaria To Samaritans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[579,444,863],"acf":{"old_id":"64268","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"326","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Converts, yes - but was their conversion sincere?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a three-year siege, Samaria fell to the Assyrian king Shalmaneser. Our chapter records its fall in the following words:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, at the [River] Habor, at the River Gozan, and in the towns of Media. (17:6)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following their characteristic practice of transferring populations (which diversified their empire while punishing rebellious tributaries), the Assyrians then took people who were indigenous to those locations and resettled them in Samaria, where \u201cthey did not worship the LORD; so the LORD sent lions against them which killed some of them\u201d (25). Their interpretation of this event was that they \u201cdo not know the rules of the God of the land\u201d (26), whereupon the king had some of the land\u2019s former priests returned there to instruct them in those \u201crules.\u201d The result was a syncretistic form of worship described as: \u201cThey worshiped the LORD, while serving their own gods according to the practices of the nations from which they had been deported\u201d (33).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These, then, were the people who came to be known, during the Second Temple period, as Samaritans, as in the New Testament\u2019s \u201cGood Samaritan,\u201d after whom a famous law is named that provides legal protection to someone who provides assistance to a person who is injured or in danger. Their descendants, still bearing that designation, live in Nablus, in proximity to ancient Samaria, and worship in a temple atop Mt. Gerizim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sages of the Talmud, however, were wont to refer to them as Kutheans (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kutiyim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) on account of their place of origin (24), and debated whether their worship of the LORD was a sincere religious conversion (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gerei tzedek<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) or stimulated by fear. 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