A tribe descended from the *Jews of the *Northern Kingdom. The Samaritans themselves claim to be descendants of the tribes of *Ephraim and *Manasseh. They were believed to have intermarried with the Assyrian conquerors after 721 BCE and were rejected...

SAMARITANS. The Samaritans are an ethno-religious group in Palestine and in Israel. Their religious center is Mount Gerizim in the vicinity of Nablus. Half of the community lives on the mountain, half lives in Ḥolon, a southern suburb of Tel...

The Samaritans (Hebrew: שומרונים‎ Shomronim), known in the Talmud as Kuthim (Hebrew: כותים‎), are an ethnic group of the Levant. Ethnically, they are descended from a group of Israelite inhabitants that have connections to ancient...

The Good Samaritan in the Bible finds favor with Jesus after he was moved with pity to help a foreigner who was in need. St. Joseph has a Samaritan of its own on the third floor of the Christ Episcopal Church building, 207...

Linda Curtis Brawn (BDN, May 18) wrote about polls revealing that support for gay rights is stronger with young voters than with older voters. Brawn speculates that's because "We older voters were raised with the Bible." Could it be just the opposite? Maybe...

A woman accused of rendering a friend a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car "like a rag doll" may not be protected by California's good Samaritan law, an appellate court ruled.The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a decision Wednesday that...

A woman accused of rendering a friend a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car "like a rag doll" may not be protected by California's good Samaritan law, an appellate court ruled.The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a decision Wednesday that...