Samarie

The Samarie is the name of the capital of a historical area of Palestine which was located at the north of the area of Judaea, in what represents today one the septentrional third of the the West Bank, whose principal city is Nablus.

Nowadays, the term of Samarie is used by the official statistical office of the State of Israel and by people speaking Hebrew or attached to Israel to insist on the relation of Israel to this area, or to refer more specifically in the West Bank in the " term; Judaea-Samarie ".

According to the Bible, with died of Solomon with, the kingdom of David bursts in two entities. In the south, the Kingdom of Juda with for capital Jerusalem and in north, the Kingdom of Israel with for capital the town of Samarie. Historically, in -721, the Assyrian led by Salmanazar V then Sargon II destroy the latter at the same time putting an end to the kingdom of Israel.

Part of the population is taken along in exile. Both Livres of the Kings will show thereafter the population of Samarie to be made up colonists from Babylonia or from Syria and converts to a hébraïco-pagan religion. The Samaritains will always affirm to be the pure ones going down from the 10 tribes living the kingdom of Samarie, and will reject any charge of paganism.

The inhabitants of the kingdom of Juda in their turn are off-set into -586. Returning to the country at the end of, exiled Judéens (Judéen will give Juif) draw aside the Samaritains rebuilding works of the Temple. The name of Samaritains becomes synonymous for them with heresy and racial impurity.

The Samaritains are however faithful to the Torah and practice the Circoncision and the Sabbat. They build a transitory temple with the Mont Garizim at the end of which is destroyed by Jean Hyrcan I in -108.

A weak community of Samaritans survived until our days in the area of Nablus.

The Parabole of the Bon Samaritan, in the Gospel S, illustrates the generally bad opinion that the inhabitants of the Royaume of Juda had Samaritans at the beginning of our era.

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Of Samariens to the good Samaritan or more the ethnico-monk small group by Ursula Schattner-Rieser, Part-time lecturer of araméen and grammar compared of the Semitic languages with the ELCOA of the catholic Institute with Paris.

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