The Samaritan's Secret

[CON10NDOR]

I BELIEVE JESUS WAS A SAMARITAN.

[rclamb04]

The Samaritans are not Hebrews, read 2 Kings 17 The house of Israel was taken into captivity and the King of Assyria replaced them with people from various other lands he had conquered. Those people were being eaten by lions and such so the kings sent a Levit to teach them about Yahweh (the LORD). This is why they have knowledge of the Hebrew Bible but they are not Hebrews no more than the Askanasis are. This is why when Yahshua met the woman at the well she knew the Judahites had no dealings

[milkyroadtube]

@rclamb04 of course they are! If you ask today's Israelis they'll say that Russian immigrants aren't jewish and Russian jews say Ethiopians aren't jewish and so on. When Jewish exiles returned from Babilon (middle class babilonised sort of guys) of course there was a lot of xenophobia between them and those who staid in Israel. So they came up with this story. A lot of people today think that Ashkenazim are turks... Same nonsence

[ashthebartender1]

He was speaking Hebrew Aramaic...Assyrians speak Akkadian Aramaic...There is also Samaritans who were Assyrian

[nomadnametab]

the samaritans were about wiped out first by the byzantines in the 500's who tried to convert them all, then the muslims did the same to them in the 700s. a dna test shows that the samaritans have the same markers as the other hebrews. and here is something that will get lots of thumbs down, half of nablus also have these markers. guess what, they are decendants of samaritans and jews. surpirse! by the way, there were several dialetct of hebrew, the samaritans spoke one of them.

[SPIRITUS425]

The anciencet Samaritians writings are the same as what is known today as the TORAH. The jews take after the Samaritian stories. The Samaritians are the same as jews. The jews copy the Samaritians book. The jews copy the samaritians.

[Zappowx]

Interesting

[uhhhcjxlewc]

In 1:50 he starts reading "shma israel" which the jews also read except jews do it in modern hebrew... So if you know the text of "shma israel" you can realy listen and hear the similarities between the ancient hebrew and modern hebrew.

[ZviJ1]

@uhhhcjxlewc The Jewish "shma israel" *sounds* modern because virtually all Jews that read it aloud use modern Hebrew pronunciation which is corrupted.

The same text in Yemenite pronunciation sounds much closer to the authentic ancient, and if you hear this you'll have gained a whole different appreciation of the difference between the Samaritan reading and the proper version.

[Malkibaal]

samaritans are the last hebrews with religion!

[Ldb29corn]

I am a new order Jew and I think I need to retrace my roots.

[ZviJ1]

@Malkibaal Folks like these obviously hadn't heard of the Qaraite Jews.

[Bertrando25]

What language does the Samaritan priest (?) spreak reading the Thora scroll?

I don't know neither Hebrew nor Arabic, but it doesn't sound to me as if it was one of the two. Is it perhaps (a variant) of Aramaic? Did they maintain Aramaic for their liturgy?

And what's the writing? Looks also similar to the old Hebrew alphabeth (and is perhaps?)

Is this the scroll who later had be stolen, or is it a newer one? I hope the old one wasn't destroyed.

[chubbyboustead]

In reading the scroll the priest is speaking "Samaritan," a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic. Because they maintain that they were never sent into exile, the Samaritans say this language is closer to the language spoken in biblical times by the Jews, too. The writing is also in Samaritan characters which, they maintain, also are the ones used in ancient times by the Jews as well as by their Samaritan forefathers. The scroll is a newer one which they keep in the museum in their village.

[Bertrando25]

The writing seems really to be the same as the old Hebrew one (I can only judge optically), but I doubt that the language is closer to the one spoken in biblical times by the Jews, too. After the Assyrians had deported Israelites from the northern kingdom of Israel (with Samaria as capital) in the 8th c., they "imported" other people from other conquered territories, as the Assyrians always did. If they "mixed up" with the Israelites/Samaritans is disputed I think?

To continue

[chubbyboustead]

There are some historians who suggest that the Samaritans were brought in to repopulate the area after the Jews were exiled. Of course, the Samaritans themselves dispute that hotly, to say the least.

[israeli360]

Bertrando25

by dna, they decended from jewish men and asyrian women.

[milkyroadtube]

@Bertrando25 he reads 'shma' yisrael' (hear o, Israel) from Deuteronomy 6:4 , in HEBREW language. Not arabic, not aramaeic and not any mixture of these. It doesn't sound hebrew to you because modern hebrew doesn't sound hebrew :)))) People who 'revived' modern hebrew (technically speaking created a creole) were native German, Polish and Russian speakers mostly. They brought their highly 'distorted' phonetics from Europe. As for this guy in the video his Hebrew does sound Hebrew as it should :)

[ZviJ1]

@milkyroadtube Your last statement represents your own opinion. In reality Yemenite-accented Hebrew is much closer to what ancient Hebrew ought to sound. If you maintain the lack of gutturals as per the Samaritan dialect is the proper "sound", I've got a bridge to sell you.

For another, at least 2 of the people who revived Hebrew spoke it with oriental Semitic phonetics, but their successors largely abandoned that.

[milkyroadtube]

@ZviJ1 what yamani? who speaks yamani? I am talking about the standard modern Hebrew speakers who say gimel rafa instead of resh etc When I say 'those who revived' I don't mean Ben Yehuda and the like, but the masses of people who started speaking Hebrew in daily life. Their mother tongue was Jewish-German , Polish etc Of course everything I say is my opinion (who else's?) and NOT scientific. I'm just an ordinary guy who thinks: too bad, our beutiful language has become ugly, for good...

[ZviJ1]

@milkyroadtube If you wish to view those masses as the revivers, so be it. But my points stand.

Happy & blessed Yom Teru`ah + Rosh Hodesh of the Seventh Month.

[milkyroadtube]

@ZviJ1 Same to you brother!

[72Yonatan]

@Bertrando25

He is reading Hebrew here. The Shomronim now send their children to school where they learn Arabic. They are bilingual at least.

[iambored2006]

the samaritans werent descendants of jesus they were descendants of the ephraim and menashe tribes!

[chubbyboustead]

Watch the video again. It says the Samaritans are descendents of the "Good Samaritan" in Jesus's parable. It doesn't say they're descendents of Jesus.

[StarMonitor]

very good....

[Yakoop22]

i know im so proud to be a samaritan but there is alot of rules fo example we cant eat cow meat or hamburger

[iambored2006]

why cant u eat cow meat? if jews can and jews also use the torah as a rules book then y cant u? lol its so strange y cant we just use OUR rules instead of yours? btw is there any way transferring from judaism to samaritanism?

[Yakoop22]

im a smaraitan i swear

[chubbyboustead]

Then you're a member of an elite group. There're only 370 Samaritans living outside Nablus and a similar number in Holon on the Israeli coast.

[davidh52]

I'm intrigued.

[chubbyboustead]

Well, it's a "mystery" novel, so that's good! It's fair to say that Nablus isn't a likely vacation spot, but I hope my novel takes you there...

[cakulman]

Very good trailer.

~Andrea M. Kulman~

[chubbyboustead]

Thanks. I hope it gave you some insights into the world of the Samaritans, as they appear in my novel.