“A living people”: New museum exhibit seeks to show Samaritans are more than a Biblical parable
MENACHEM WECKER, of Religion News Service, takes a look at ‘The Samaritans: A Biblical People’, a new exhibition at the Museum of the Bible which includes artifacts spanning from the second century before the Common Era to contemporary paintings made in the past couple of years…
Sight-Seeing: We praise people as ‘Good Samaritans,’ but there’s a complex history behind the phrase
TERRY GILES, professor of theology at Gannon University in the US, looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at the history of the people known as the Samaritans mentioned in Jesus’ famous New Testament parable…
The Long Read: Samaritans number less than 1,000. Here’s how their tradition survives in Israel
GIL ZOHAR, in an article published by Religion Unplugged, sheds light on the modern descendents of the Biblical Samaritans and their long history…