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more pro-life: The Samaritan Pentateuch has a more pro-life translation of the ban on abortion in {{bibleref|Exodus|21|22-23}} than the Jewish Masoretic text does.
{{See also|Mystery: Was John a Samaritan}}''?''
{{See also|Mystery: Was John a Samaritan}}''?''
'''Samaritans''' today are a people of mixed ethnicity who live in [[Israel]], who practice a religion having similarities to and differences with the [[Jewish faith]]. They accept as their canon the [[Torah]] and the [[Book of Joshua]], as do [[Christian]]s, while rejecting other [[Jewish]] [[Scriptures]].
'''Samaritans''' today are a people of mixed ethnicity who live in [[Israel]], who practice a religion having similarities to and differences with the [[Jewish faith]]. They accept as their canon the [[Torah]] and the [[Book of Joshua]], as do [[Christian]]s, while rejecting other [[Jewish]] [[Scriptures]].
The Samaritan [[Pentateuch]] has a more [[pro-life]] translation of the ban on [[abortion]] in {{bibleref|Exodus|21|22-23}} than the Jewish Masoretic text does. “Philo (Spec., 3:108) specifically prescribes the imposition of the death penalty for causing an abortion, and the text is likewise construed in the Samaritan Targum.”<ref>https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abortion-in-judaism</ref>
Samaritans had a large population of three million at the time of [[Jesus]],<ref name="Samaritans">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/5/20/i-hope-there-are-still-samaritans-in-the-future</ref> and the Samaritan versus Jewish rivalry then was analogous to the Palestinian versus Jewish conflict today. Samaritans reject emigrating to other lands, and today do not consider themselves to be Palestinian or Jewish.<ref name="Samaritans"/> Some may wonder if Jesus was a Samaritan,<ref>https://johnmarkum.org/was-jesus-a-samaritan/</ref> while [[John the Apostle]] likely was.
Samaritans had a large population of three million at the time of [[Jesus]],<ref name="Samaritans">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/5/20/i-hope-there-are-still-samaritans-in-the-future</ref> and the Samaritan versus Jewish rivalry then was analogous to the Palestinian versus Jewish conflict today. Samaritans reject emigrating to other lands, and today do not consider themselves to be Palestinian or Jewish.<ref name="Samaritans"/> Some may wonder if Jesus was a Samaritan,<ref>https://johnmarkum.org/was-jesus-a-samaritan/</ref> while [[John the Apostle]] likely was.