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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>

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>  

 

Today's Samaritans who are a mixture of immigrabts as well, reject emigrating to other lands, and today do not consider themselves to be Palestinian Arab or Jewish.<ref name="Samaritans"/>  

The Samaritans mentioned several times in the [[Gospels]] by [[Jesus]] were a mixed-race, part-[[Gentile]] and part-Jewish, who engaged in practices considered to be [[blasphemous]] by Jewish [[Pharisees]].  The references to Samaritans are nearly all favorable, particularly by the [[Gentile]] [[Luke]] but also by [[John]], while [[Matthew]] is critical of Samaritans at {{bibleref|Matthew|10|5}}<ref>"These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: 'Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.'" ([[ESV]])</ref>.  For example, one of the most famous references to Samaritans in the New Testament is in the [[Parable of the Good Samaritan]].  It is also said that Jesus first expressly revealed his divinity to a Samaritan woman at the well, despite how Samaritans were outcasts at the time:<ref>John 4:25-26 (NAS).</ref>

The Samaritans mentioned several times in the [[Gospels]] by [[Jesus]] were a mixed-race, part-[[Gentile]] and part-Jewish, who engaged in practices considered to be [[blasphemous]] by Jewish [[Pharisees]].  The references to Samaritans are nearly all favorable, particularly by the [[Gentile]] [[Luke]] but also by [[John]], while [[Matthew]] is critical of Samaritans at {{bibleref|Matthew|10|5}}<ref>"These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: 'Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.'" ([[ESV]])</ref>.  For example, one of the most famous references to Samaritans in the New Testament is in the [[Parable of the Good Samaritan]].  It is also said that Jesus first expressly revealed his divinity to a Samaritan woman at the well, despite how Samaritans were outcasts at the time:<ref>John 4:25-26 (NAS).</ref>

==Samaritan Language==

==Samaritan Language==

The Samaritan language proper is a Palestinian Aramaic dialect, differing only slightly from the other dialects of Aramaic spoken in Syria, but preserving an archaic script.<ref name="JE"/> The confusion, or rather neglect, of the gutturals in pronunciation may be compared with a similar peculiarity of the Galilean dialect.<ref name="JE"/> The language must be studied in connection especially with that of the Jerusalem Talmud and the remains of Christian Palestinian Syriac.<ref name="JE"/> After the Arab conquest of Syria in 632, the Samaritan vernacular gradually gave way to Arabic, and probably by the eleventh century, if not earlier, it was no longer popularly understood.<ref name="JE"/> From that time the literature is either in Arabic or, chiefly for liturgical purposes, in Hebrew, which becomes more and more corrupt as time goes on.<ref name="JE"/>

The Samaritan language proper is an Aramaic dialect, differing only slightly from the other dialects of Aramaic spoken in Syria, but preserving an archaic script.<ref name="JE"/> The confusion, or rather neglect, of the gutturals in pronunciation may be compared with a similar peculiarity of the Galilean dialect.<ref name="JE"/> The language must be studied in connection especially with that of the Jerusalem Talmud and the remains of Christian Palestinian Syriac.<ref name="JE"/> After the Arab conquest of Syria in 632, the Samaritan vernacular gradually gave way to Arabic, and probably by the eleventh century, if not earlier, it was no longer popularly understood.<ref name="JE"/> From that time the literature is either in Arabic or, chiefly for liturgical purposes, in Hebrew, which becomes more and more corrupt as time goes on.<ref name="JE"/>

==Samaritans and Israel==

==Samaritans and Israel==

One woman described how difficult the abortion was: "It felt like I lost someone I knew. I had something black in my heart. ... The abortion was emotionally very hard."<ref name="Guardian"/>

One woman described how difficult the abortion was: "It felt like I lost someone I knew. I had something black in my heart. ... The abortion was emotionally very hard."<ref name="Guardian"/>

== See also ==

== See also ==

*[https://margmowczko.com/a-brief-history-of-the-samaritans/ History of Samaritans]

*[https://margmowczko.com/a-brief-history-of-the-samaritans/ History of Samaritans]