Do Samaritans speak Hebrew?

Today, the spoken vernacular among Samaritans is evenly split between Modern Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic, depending on whether they reside in Holon (Israel) or in Shechem (i.e. Nablus, in Palestine’s Area A).

What religion are the Samaritans?

The Samaritan religion, also known as Samaritanism, is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion of the Samaritan people. The Samaritans adhere to the Samaritan Torah, which they believe is the original, unchanged Torah, as opposed to the Torah used by Jews.

What language is the Samaritan Torah written in?

Samaritan Hebrew
The manuscript Samaritan Hebrew is written in the Samaritan alphabet, a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (very ancient script used by the Israelites around 10th century BCE), which in turn is a variant of the earlier Phoenician alphabet.

When was the Samaritan Pentateuch written?

The script of the Samaritan Pentateuch, its close connections at many points with the Septuagint, and its even closer agreements with the present Hebrew text, all suggest a date about 122 BCE.

Who is Samaria in the Bible?

Samaria (Hebrew: Shomron) is mentioned in the Bible in 1 Kings 16:24 as the name of the mountain on which Omri, ruler of the northern Israelite kingdom in the 9th century BCE, built his capital, naming it also Samaria.

What God did Samaritans worship?

“God is spirit and truth,” says Jesus. Our God is God of both the Jews and the Samaritans. In fact, God is the spirit beyond both Samaritans and Jews. Beyond Jews and Gentiles.

What books of the Bible did the Samaritans use?

Samaritans accept the Torah—the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, also called the Pentateuch—as authoritative, but reject the writings of the prophets and the other writings which are part of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.