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