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...

member of a community of Jews, now nearly extinct, that claims to be related by blood to those Jews of ancient Samaria who were not deported by the Assyrian conquerors of the kingdom of Israel in 722 &BC;. The Samaritans call themselves Bene-Yisrael...

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...

Member of a now nearly extinct Jewish community. Calling themselves Bene-Yisrael (“Children of Israel”) or Shamerim (“Observant Ones”), they claim to be related to those Jews of ancient Samaria who were not deported from Israel...

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