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To: Karl Spooner
Samaritans were HALF breeds: not 'truly' Jewish.

'Normal' Jews would have NOITHING to do with them (John 4:9)



 The term "Cuthim" applied by Jews to the Samaritans had clear pejorative connotations, implying that they were interlopers brought in from Kutha in Mesopotamia and rejecting their claim of descent from the ancient Tribes of Israel.

Samaritans refer to themselves as Bene Yisrael ("Children of Israel") which is a term used by all Jewish denominations as a name for the Jewish people as a whole.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans

487 posted on 06/05/2014 4:34:38 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

They were the gentiles, who God would favor after the rejection of God by the Israelites.


492 posted on 06/05/2014 4:49:06 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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