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{{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 and differences to 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 and differences to 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 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 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"/>

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