Some further context is that the Jews had a longstanding prejudice against the Samaritans, and it was customary for them not to engage with one another. Jesus asks the Samaritan woman to draw ...

As an example, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Levites of Jesus’ time considered the Samaritans and others inferior races, claiming that the Samaritans were mongrel Jews, and that God excluded all ...

Perhaps the most famous Samaritan is one who never existed—the “Good Samaritan” from a fictional story Jesus tells in ... spans millennia. Like Jews, Samaritans claim to be the descendants ...

Jews today obviously are not the Jews who lived in Jesus’ time, and even the Jews in Jesus’ time did not all have a relationship with the Roman governor. Only a small group in power did.

It’s that so many Christians spent so much time confusing ... when examining Jesus’ solidarity with “ethnic outcasts,” including Samaritans despised by Jews, and with aliens and exiles ...

A Samaritan—an enemy of the Jews, in Jesus’s time—stops to help ... Only four states punish Bad Samaritans for failing to help a fellow citizen, on the European model: Minnesota, Rhode ...

This week, as Christendom celebrated what it dearly believed to be the 1,943rd anniversary of the birth of Jesus, the Jews of the world still awaited their promised Messiah, and the ingathering of ...