The Israel of the Persian period included descendants of the inhabitants of the old kingdom of Judah, returnees from the Babylonian exile community, Mesopotamians who had joined them or had been exiled themselves to Samaria at a far earlier period, Samaritans and others.

Ancestrally, Samaritans claim descent from a group of Israelite inhabitants from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh ( the two sons of Joseph ) as well as some descendants from the priestly tribe of Levi, who have connections to ancient Samaria from the period of their entry into the land of Canaan, while some suggest that it was from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the Samaritan Kingdom of Baba Rabba.

In the Biblical account, however, Cuthah was just one of several cities from which people were brought to Samaria, and the Samaritans were later called " Cutheans " to spite them, with the added assertion that the men of Kuth made Nergal their god.

The inscription of Sargon II records the deportation of a relatively small proportion of the Israelites from Samaria ( 27, 290, according to the annals ), so it is quite possible that a sizable population remained that could identify themselves as Israelites, the term that the Samaritans prefer for themselves.

The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group named after and inhabiting Samaria after the beginning of the Assyrian Exile of the Israelites.

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

On the other hand, Samaritans ( tribes of Menasseh, Ephraim and partially Benjamin and Levi ) became named for Samaria.

Attempts were also made to incorpoarate the Samaritans, following takeover of Samaria.

According to the Bible, other people were brought to Samaria, the Samaritans, under his predecessor Shalmaneser V ( 2 Kings 18 ).

In the Gospels generally, " though the Jews of Jesus ' day had no time for the ' half-breed ' people of Samaria ," Jesus " never spoke disparagingly about them ," and " held a benign view of Samaritans.

Some of its inhabitants were of the number of the " Samaritans " who believed in Jesus when he tarried two days in the neighborhood, and the city must have been visited by the Apostles on their way from Samaria to Jerusalem ( Acts 8: 25 ).

The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the eastern Mediterranean region, originating from connection with ancient Samaria.

: For the charity, see Samaritans ( charity ).

A large group of Samaritans had been persuaded by an unnamed man to go to Mount Gerizim in order to see sacred artifacts allegedly buried by Moses.

with the death of the 112th High Priest Shlomyah ben Pinhas, when the priesthood was transferred to the sons of Itamar ; see article Samaritan for list of High Priests from 1613 to 2004-the 131st High priest of the Samaritans is Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq.

The emergence of the Samaritans as an ethnic and religious community distinct from other Levant peoples appears to have occurred at some point after the Assyrian conquest of the Israelite Kingdom of Israel in approximately 721 BCE.

The antagonism between Samaritans and Jews is important in understanding the Christian Bible's stories of " Parable of the Good Samaritan " and the " Samaritan woman at the well ".

While at Rome, he voiced his support for the Jews to Claudius, and against the Samaritans and the procurator of Iudaea Province, Ventidius Cumanus, who was lately thought to have been the cause of some disturbances there.

Samaritans ( until 2002 known as The Samaritans ) is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline.

In 2004 Samaritans announced that volunteer numbers had reached a thirty-year low, and launched a campaign to recruit more young people ( specifically targeted at ages 18 – 24 ) to become volunteers.

In 2007 Samaritans received 5, 319, 462 contacts, by phone, email, text, letter, minicom, face-to-face at a branch, through their work in prisons, and at local and national festivals and other events.

For this reason, a plaque offering support from The Samaritans was positioned at this infamous point.

Tensions were particularly high in the early decades of the first century because Samaritans had desecrated the Jewish Temple at Passover with human bones.

Workers at the pub and taxi drivers are also on the look-out for potential victims, and there are posted signs with the telephone number of Samaritans urging potential jumpers to call them.

It said that the press, the Samaritans and the Public Protection Agency " were informed of bomb positions at least 30 minutes to one hour before each explosion ".

The practitioning population of the Mosaic faith at the time included the Jews, Samaritans, Nabateans and Edomeans.

For various reasons ( at least some of which seem to be political ) the returning exiles did not recognize the Samaritans as Jews.

The Samaritan Pentateuch version of Deuteronomy, and a fragment found at Qumran, holds that the instruction actually mandated the construction of the altar on Mount Gerizim, which the Samaritans view is the site of the tabernacle, not Shiloh.

Samaritans Tasmania is the oldest telephone befriending service in Tasmania and the fourth oldest in Australia and it receives at least 5000 calls a year.

The first Nightline was set up in 1970 at Essex University by a former director of the local Samaritans branch and the university chaplain to try to reduce the rate of student suicide.

* A telephone in a glass box, a tribute to the founding of the Samaritans at the church by the rector, Dr Chad Varah, in 1953.

This has also led to the Samaritans placing signs at each path leading onto the Erskine Bridge walkway.

Under Ibrahim ( 218-227 of the Hegira ) the synagogue of the Samaritans and Dositheans at Nablus was burned by heretics, but it was subsequently rebuilt.

The procurator of Iudaea, Ventidius Cumanus, was accused of partiality to the Samaritans, who were at variance with the Galileans, and both parties appealed to Quadratus.

:* John 4: 9 – ( Jews have no dealings with Samaritans ), it is one of so-called Western non-interpolations ; omission is supported by D, a, b, d, e, j, cop < sup > fay </ sup >, it was supplemented by the first corrector ( before leaving scriptorium );

It has been posited that an ancient belief existed among the Jews and Samaritans that both the wisest and most aged among them would grow caprine horns, which were known euphemistically as " rays of light " ( נקודת אור ), hence the following ancient Hebrew dictums:

This includes all Christians, all Children of Israel ( including Jews, Karaites and Samaritans ), and Sabians.

The Samaritans consider themselves ( and some biblical scholars consider them ) to be the remaining population of the Northern Kingdom of Israel who were not exiled during the ten tribes exile and who joined with the exiled people that the Assyrians brought into the land instead of the exiled Israelite population ( such as the people of Kutha ), forming the Samaritan community.

The Samaritan Pentateuch, sometimes called Samaritan Torah, ( Hebrew: תורה שומרונית torah shomroniyt ), is a version of the Hebrew language Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, traditionally written in the Samaritan alphabet and used by the Samaritans.

The Volunteer Emotional Support Helplines ( VESH ) combines Samaritans ( through Befrienders Worldwide ) with the other 2 largest international services ( IFOTES & Lifeline ), and plans a combined international network of helplines.

", XI, vii, viii ), who refused to separate from his alien wife, Sanaballat's daughter, and with him the many Jews, priests and laymen, who sided with the rebel, these betook themselves to Shechem ; a schismatic temple was then erected on Mount Garizim and thus Shechem became the " holy city " of the Samaritans.

They had also helped for auctions on Meningitis Research Foundation, Carlton Celebrity Auction ( for Centrepoint ( for the homeless ), the N. S. P. C. C., and The Samaritans ), Zutto charity painting, Pushing The Envelope ( for National Literacy Trust ) and Irish Blood Transfusion Service ( IBTS ).

Palestinians ( including Druze and Bedouin ) constituted the largest group, followed by Jews ( including Sephardim and Ashkenazim ), Egyptians, Cypriots, Samaritans, Circassians Armenians, Dom, and others.

By the beginning of the Byzantine period ( disestablishment of Syria-Palaestina ), the Jews had still formed the majority and were living alongside Samaritans, pagan Greco-Syrians and a small Christian community.

While the Palestinian Authority makes no reservations within the Palestinian Legislative Council ( there were reserved seats for Christians and Samaritans in the electoral law for the Palestinian general election, 1996 ), certain positions in local government are guaranteed to certain minority groups, in order to retain particular traditional cultural influence and diversity.

At the time of the Arab conquest of the Rashidun, the region had been inhabited mainly by local Aramaic-speaking Monophysite Christian peasants ( like the Mardaites and Byzantine Christians or Melchites ), Ghassanid and Nabatean Arabs, as well as minorities of Jews, Samaritans and Ismaelite Itureans.

The origin of haftarah reading is lost to history, and several theories have been proposed to explain its role in Jewish practice, suggesting it arose in response to the persecution of the Jews under Antiochus Epiphanes which preceded the Maccabean revolt, wherein Torah reading was prohibited, or that it was " instituted against the Samaritans, who denied the canonicity of the Prophets ( except for Joshua ), and later against the Sadducees.

The University also maintains several buildings of historic interest in uphill Lincoln ( the " Cathedral " campus ), including a building named after Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans.

This definition includes the inhabitants of the West Bank ( including the Dom and Samaritans ), the inhabitants of Gaza Strip, the Israeli Arabs ( including Druze and Bedouin ), the Israeli Jews whose ancestors were living there prior to the onset of Zionist immigration ( the Old Yishuv ), ethnic Jews in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East whose roots are predominantly Palestinian ( Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim, Italqim, and Romaniotes ) and the communities of Palestinian Refugees all over the world.

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The phone rings and Beryl speaks with a suicidal man ( Christopher Sandford ), who wants to talk to The Samaritans, but has dialled the wrong number.

Dickens had strong humanitarian interests which were manifested in her work with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( reflected in her 1953 book No More Meadows and her 1964 work Kate and Emma ), the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( coming to the fore in her 1963 book Cobbler's Dream ), and the Samaritans, the subject of her 1970 novel The Listeners – she helped to found the first American branch of the Samaritans in Massachusetts in 1974.