Samaritans
over what percent of the worldwide population of Samaritans live in very close proximity to Gerizim
90%
a race created when the king of __________ brought _________ into __________ and they ___________ the Jews living there
Assyria, Gentiles, Israel, married
the king of Assyria brought people from ____________, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephardim and ______________ them in the towns of _____________ to replace the Israelites
Babylon, settled, Samaria
Samaritans used to include descendants who ascribe to the ______________ tribe
Benjamin
Samaritans claim descent from the tribe of ______________ and the tribe of __________ (the two sons of ____________) as well as from the ___________
Ephram, Manasseh, Joseph, Levites
the Samaritans believe the Mount ____________ was the original Holy Place of Israel from time that _____________ conquered Israel
Gerizim, Joshua
the Samaritans were ___________ of the __________
Guardians, Law
all this took place because the _______________ had ____________ against the Lord their God.......
Israelites, sinned
who writes that the Samaritans scattered ________ ________ in the Jewish temple
Josephus, dead bodies
but Zerubbabel, ___________ and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, You have no part with is in building a temple to our God. we ___________ will build it for the Lord, the God of ___________, as King __________, the king of Persia commanded
Joshua, alone, Israel, Cyrus
the emergence of the Samaritans as an ethnic and religious community distinct from other ______________ peoples appears to have occurred at some point after the ____________ __________ of the ______________ kingdom of _________ is approximately _________ BC
Levant, Assyrian conquest, Israelite, Israel, 721
Samaritans believed that their worship, which is based on Samaritan _____________, the the true religion of the ancient ______________ from before the __________________ _________________, preserved by those who remained in the ____________ of ___________, as opposed to rabbinical Judaism
Pentateuch, Israelites, Babylonian captivity, Land, Israel
who thought that the daughters of Samaritans were perpetually unclean
Rabbis
The Samaritans are adherents of ________________, a religion closely related at rabbinical _____________.
Samaritanism, Judaism
so the Lord was very ____________ with Israel and removed the from his _________
angry, presence
the Jews __________ Samaria and Samaritans at all cost
avoided
Jewish traditions affirms the Assyrian _________________ and ________________ of the previous inhibitions by forced resettlement by other peoples, but maintains a different ethnic _________ for the Samaritans
deportations, replacement
then the peoples around them set out to _________________ the people of ____________ and make them ___________ to go on building
discourage, Judgh, afraid
an ethnoreligious group is an ____________ _____________ whose members are also unified by a common ___________ background
ethnic group, religious
they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the __________ and said, "Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been _____________ to him since the time of ___________________ king of Assyria, who brought us here
families, sacrificing, Esarhadden
the Jews loved or hated the Samaritans
hated
so the people of Israel were taken from their __________ into exile in ____________ and they are still there
homeland, Assyria
deuteronomy 7:1-6 says: do not __________ with them... for they will turn sons away from me to _________ other ________. you people are __________ to the Lord your God... his ___________________ _______________
intermarry, serve, gods, holy, treasured possession
nevertheless, each ____________ group made its own good in the several towns where they settled. they worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the ____________ from which they had been brought
national, nations
the ___________ is celebrated by the Samaritans on Mount Gerizim , and is additionally considered by them as the location on the near- ______________ of _____________
passover, sacrifice, Isaac
the king of Assyria gave this order, "Have one of the ___________ you took captive from ______________ go back to live there and __________ the people what the god of the _____________ requires
priests, Samaria, teach, land
the blended what
religions
when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a __________ for the Lord, the God of Israel
temple
the mountain is sacred to the Samaritans who regard it, rather than Jerusalem's ____________ ___________, as having been the location choose by _____________ for a holy temple.
temple mount, Yahweh
they did ___________ things to the Jewish temple
unholy
The major issue between Rabbinical Jews and Samaritans has always been the location of the chosen place to _____________; ______________ according the the Jewish faith or Mount ___________ according to the Samaritan faith
worship, Jerusalem, Gerizim
when they first lived there, they did not ____________ the Lord; so he sent ___________ among them and they killed some of the people
worship, lions