Samaritans believe that God sanctified Mount Gerizim (outside modern Nablus) as the holy site for sacrifices. Jews say the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This division may be a relic of the division between Judah and Israel before the Babylonian Exile, with the Samaritans being a remnant of the population of the northern kingdom of Israel that managed to hang onto their original homes through the invasions that destroyed that kingdom. The Samaritan Torah has been passed down through the past 2500 years through an independent scribal tradition from the Jewish Torah. The two Torahs differ in about 6000 p rlaces, mostly small variations in spelling or grammar, but a few significant places. The Samaritans entirely reject the Jewish texts added to The Bible after the Torah.
Note: The question was in the past tense, but I've answered in the present tense. Samaritans still exist, they are not confined to an old Christian parable.
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The Jews had been conquered by a lot of empires, countries, etc. The Samaritans were Jews that had intermingled with the other cultures and for that reason the Jews thought them unclean and 'dirty'.
Samaritans are accepted by the State of Israel (i.e. they can enter and leave, have freedom and movement, and can apply for citizenship), but Samaritans are not accepted as Jews. Samaritans, during the times of Jewish presence in what is now called Israel and Palestine, were not Jews and did not observe Jewish rituals. They were co-inhabitants. (This is similar to how whites and blacks are co-inhabitants of the United States. They both come from the same cities and towns, but are not the same race.)
AnswerThe gospels say that Joseph and Mary were Jews, not Samaritans.
There was considerable enmity between the people of Samaria and the Jews, because the Jews had conquered Samaria during the Maccabean period in the second century BCE and enslaved the Samaritans (or Samarians). The Maccabeasns had continued north and conquered Galilee, converting the people they found to Judaism. In the first century, the Samaritans were no longer subject to the Jews, but would attack any Jews attempting to cross Samaria to travel between Galilee and Judea. The story of the Good Samaritan was meant to show that even an implacable enemy of Judaism could be a good person and even help a Jew in need.
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Luke 10:25-37 Its not that Samaritans help, per se, it's that the people Jesus was telling the story to (the Jews) disliked the Samaritans and considered them bad people (i.e. not likely to help a down trodden person.) In the story, a man is rob and beaten. The priest and temple boy (the people who the target audience (the Jews) would assume go to heaven) pass the man in need on the other side of the street; however, the "villainous" Samaritans helps the guy out. The premise is "Love your neighbor" and you go to heaven.
A:The Samarians, or Samaritans, were monotheistic, following an archaic form of Judaism that possibly dated all the way back to the seventh century BCE. There is still small group of Samaritans who follow the same traditions in Israel, even today.
Judasim is the religion practised by the Jews. The reality is that the faith practised by Abraham should be known as the religion practised by all the Hebrews. All Jews are Hebrews but not all the Hebrews are Jews. Jews are the descendants of one of the tribes of Israelites. The other 11 tribes are not to be found. They are called the missing tribes. Later the faith practised by Jews came to be known as Judaism. The Samaritans still practice the ancient religion of the Hebrews. The Temple built by King Solomon centres around the Temple while the Samaritans believe that they have nothing to do with the Temple. During Christ's time the Samaritans believed that their Lord dwelt in Mountains.
The Jews hated the Samaritans because the Samaritans were Jews that intermarried with Gentiles. They considered them not equal and a lower caste.
The samaritans betrayed the Jewish faith by marrying the Jews.Biblical answer (highly simplified):When the Jews of the Northern Kingdom (Israel, as opposed to Judah) were taken into Assyrian captivity, the king of Assyria repopulated the region of Samaria with people from pagan nations (2 Kings 17:23, 24). Upon the Jews' return from captivity, they intermarried with these pagan peoples and developed a system of worship that was contrary to God's commandments (2 Kings 17:33, 34). It was for both of these reasons that "pure" Jews held the Samaritans in great contempt.
Mainly as they were not Jews and believed in idol worship, and their beliefs were wrong according to the Jewish one.