Who Are the Samaritans?

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Executive Producers: Daniel Cuevas, Dorian McCann, Maritza
Producer: Frederick Joseph Adams
Writer: Matthew Chalmers
Editor: Mark Henry
Bibliography:
Special issue of the journal religions, open access: Religions | Special Issue : Exploring Samaritanism (mdpi.com) - technical, but a wide-ranging set by the big names
Gary L. Knoppers, Jews and Samaritans: The Origins and History of their Early Relations (OUP, 2013) - important overview of earliest period (through to Roman rule)
Yitzhak Magen, The Samaritans and the Good Samaritan (IAA, 2008) - summary of archaeological evidence.
Reinhard Pummer, The Samaritans: A Profile (Eerdmans, 2016) - the best (and only) English-language state of the field starting point

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@ReligionForBreakfast 3 года назад

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@mosheh111 3 года назад

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@chnsm 3 года назад

Would you cover thier halakha and thier priests books written over the years? I would love to see it

@Ugly_German_Truths 3 года назад

So if you prefer to take these Samarian Israelites by their word, do you also accept any and every claim made by the Black Israelites? They have pretty much the same "justification" for being the real descendants of the biblical patriarchs as this other group, they also divert from the Mosaic rite in essential bits like this other group... Yes, there is importance in following the evidence and archeological findings ARE excellent reasons to rethink positions. A minority position declaring the majority to be impure and having fallen off the true faith though is historically always shaky and usually born from some big peeves and religious disagreements the splintering of evangelical protestantism in the US comes to mind, so many "Schisms" there and most only due to "holier than thou" squabbling over rules and doctrine. That alone does not make you legitimate.

@robertmitchell8630 3 года назад

Anyone defending Moses Joshua Kaleb might as well be a Nuremberg sympathiser

@robertmitchell8630 3 года назад

even a cursory glance at history”, wrote Arthur Koestler, “should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one’s tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology. . . Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up

@OttoStrawanzinger 3 года назад

I think it's worth pointing out that the Samaritan Torah is nowadays very accessible to laypeople through Benyamim Tsedaka's book The Israelite Samaritan Version of the Torah, which not only contains an English translation of the Samaritan Torah, but also has it side by side with and English translation the Masoretic Torah, including differences between the two that are marked in the text.

@nunyabiznez6381 3 года назад

Thanks! I was wondering about that.

@ivanfourie 3 года назад

@@nunyabiznez6381 thank you . . im interested in the actual script of their Torah . . i wonder if an interlinear version exists?

@ntmn8444 3 года назад

I might pick this up!

@stephennicolay1940 2 года назад

I now have this and will begin reading very soon.

@leejennifercorlewayres9193 2 года назад

@@stephennicolay1940 What did you find out?

@wompa70 3 года назад

History is absolutely fascinating. Partly because, as you pointed out, history is still happening.

@chendaforest 3 года назад

Francis Fukurama claimed in the late 90s that the 'end of history' had arrived. He was a idiot.

@oceanmachine1906 3 года назад

@@chendaforest that is what Marxism/Communism claimed too

@buythegamesagain 3 года назад

Between the U.S. President threatening to nuke Patriots and Russia threatening to nuke anyone, I wholeheartedly agree

@chendaforest 3 года назад

@@oceanmachine1906 yes but he wasn't a Marxist.

@oceanmachine1906 3 года назад

@@chendaforest never said he was

@gibiscus 3 года назад

Ok, so all y'all wondering about the Good Samaritan, the point of the story was that a Jewish priest didn't help an injured Jew because he thought he might've been dead and priests (Kohanim = Cohens) are supposed to remain pure by not having contact with the dead, but the Samaritan was not a priest (if he was the same rules would apply) so he helped the Jew despite their ethnic/religious tensions. So there's two layers to the parable: the downsides of ritual purity and overcoming ethnoreligioua conflict.

@palamecianrider7385 3 года назад

I was looking for this comment ☺️

@MarkusAldawn 3 года назад

I was always taught it was about corruption and kindness- the priest and the wise man passed by, proving that faith or intellect did not guarantee good morals, where the Samaritan was supposed to be an example of someone you really wouldn't expect to help you. For context, I was told this story in a Northern Irish Catholic Sunday school. I think stressing the ritual purity probably would have taken a back seat to showing how sectarianism is bad because the other lot are, contrary to some people's belief, not evil. Or maybe it's an example of how Christianity doesn't always understand the Jewish parts of its history, with the rules about purity and death not emphasised (didn't even know that was a thing until now!) Still, very interesting regardless of the reason.

@Usernumber777 3 года назад

@@MarkusAldawn actually this is the accurate teaching of Jesus. He said about the priests and farizees that they only follow the law by mouth but not by heart

@MrJMB122 3 года назад

Let not forget the Samaritan woman

@Usernumber777 3 года назад

@@MrJMB122 yes the longest dialogue of Jesus in the Bible is his encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well

@reade_gauvin 3 года назад

I’ve always wondered about the context of Jesus’ “Good Samaritan” story, and what the history is there. Great video!

@Chuck_Carolina 3 года назад

Reade, I would like you to read Luke 9-: 51-56 and also John chapter 4. I hope these will help.

@laurencedankel4751 3 года назад

@@Chuck_Carolina I think he was asking for a wider context than the New Testament sources you so condescendingly proffer.

@taesu8 3 года назад

I think it is a rebuke on people who observe ritual, at the cost of being blind to be good. In the case of Good Samaritan, the ritual of purity. Two first people passed the distressed man did not want to taint themselves from touching a dying man. Samaritan who was passing by has no restriction and assisted the man and thus observing God's desire instead of following the rituals.

@bigscarysteve 3 года назад

@@laurencedankel4751 You sound like a true disciple of Marcuse.

@moondust2365 3 года назад

@@taesu8 True. In part, it's a rebuke on Jewish treatment to Samaritans, showing how Samaritans can be good to Jews and vice versa. And in part, that, a rebuke on ritual observation at the cost of avoiding a good deed. After all, had the Samaritan been a priest, it's likely that he too wouldn't have helped the man. Of course, if the Samaritan was a priest, it would have strengthened the point of being helpful to others regardless of both ethnic/religous differences as well as ritual law.

@deanedward2379 3 года назад

The recent DNA study is an important aspect not mentioned. The studies find that Samaritans and Jews share common ancestral DNA linking the two to the original Hebrew Israelites.

@ntmn8444 3 года назад

Oh of course.

@BrianStanleyEsq 3 года назад

That the cohens show a common patrilineal (Oy, what an insult to the matrilineal ancestry demanded by the rabbis of the Ashkenazim!) ancestry but cannot agree on the pronunciation of the Name casts an interesting light on a comment made by a 1st c. Jewish religious figure: "G-d is able to raise up sons to Abraham from the stones of this field."

@highpath4776 3 года назад

@@BrianStanleyEsq Interesting , as Jesus said if the people were prevented from crying out then the stones of the field would. Indicating a though of continuation , I assume poetic rather than an expected actual possibility.

@highpath4776 3 года назад

@Pojka I dont think its disputed that Canaan was occupied by a whole load of tribes , communities and peoples from around the Med, and the Arabian areas, interesting if there were settlements of peoples from further away

@highpath4776 3 года назад

@Pojka Iran - remind me is that potentially one of the areas of Ur (or would there be nomadic connections to there ?)

@ntmn8444 3 года назад

I’ve been fascinated by the Samaritan Israelites for years. I’m shocked reading these comments that people didn’t know Samaritans are real and still around. But I’m glad more and more people are learning about them.

@shainazion4073 2 года назад

Watch the videos on "The Traveling Clatt", he goes and shows the Samaritans in his latest videos

@flutiyama 3 года назад

I'm Brazilian, and I had absolutely no idea of the Samaritan movement down here. Immediately researching it as soon as I finish this video!!!!

@onedaya_martian1238 3 года назад

Please report back !! That would be fascinating. Like the Nisei of Sao Paulo, they would be a surprising group to learn about in that amazing country. - Signed- Wannabe Carioca !!

@deanedward2379 Год назад

There are also Samaritan Israelite communities now in Cuba, Philippines and Canada.

@stinkeye460 3 месяца назад

You would still have to convert to be a Samaritan. You don't have to convert to Judaism to worship the G-d of Israel. You can become a Ben Noach instead. These are righteous Gentiles who worship the G-d of Israel and accept Judaism as their faith without converting to Judaism. People from all over the world have been doing this in mass since they discovered this through the internet.

@M4th3u54ndr4d3 3 года назад

Great video! I am a geneticist and computer scientist from Brazil. I have moroccan&syrian jewish ancestry. I love to study about the ethnicities of middle east. Here's what I discovered about samaritans: they are the closer non-jewish group with ashkenazi jews. The genetically closer groups to ashkenazi jews are: 1- sephardic jews 2- mizrahi jews 3 - *samaritans* 4 - south italians 5 - assyrian/chaldean/aramean christians 6- druze 7 - levantine arabs (palestinians, lebanese, syrians, jordanians) The samaritans also are very closer to sephardic and mizrahi jews. BUT they have good amounts of iraqi haplogroup subclades, which can definitely indicate an ancient admixture with assyrians/baylonians/persians. So, genetically speaking, both histories are partially true. They are indeed very genetically similar to the main jewish ethnic groups, and they do have mesopotamian admixture. The genetic tests are a new and interesting weapon to analyze these religious stories. Sorry about my english!

@Reubentheimitator6572 3 года назад

I think your English is pretty good but for your use of comparatives (e.g. your use of 'closer').

@Dreadboi1990 2 года назад

Sounds like Macedonian to me seeing how all those groups you listed historically are mixed with greeks romans and turks

@gnosis2871 2 года назад

Hi, thanks for the information. May I ask what your sources are?

@hedgehog3180 2 года назад

You probably didn't intend this but using “weapon” in this context isn't really appropiate as it implies a conflict that has to be won. I figure you might have used it because the word gets used metaphorically in context where it's a good thing like “a new weapon against disease” or “a weapon to fight misinformation” but that's because in those contexts you're seeking to eliminate something that's almost universally agrees to be a bad thing, so “fighting” it doesn't imply a conflict with anyone. However in this context where we're talking about ethnicity we (as in scholars) should be detatched observes who don't pick a side and just seek to describe a situation. Therefore using the word “weapon” is inappropiate as it implies conflict which scholars not only shouldn't participate in but it's also generally understood that when talking about something as heated as religion scholars have an obligation to try to defuse any conflicts and help people better understand each other. Instead in this context using the term “tool” is much more appropiate as it is neutral and solely implies that this can be used to gain greater insight into a certain topic without implying the existance of a conflict or taking any side in one. I figure that's what you were aiming for anyways. This got really long but as a fellow non-native speaker I know how confusing English culture can be in these situations, you can really only learn things like this from having a ton of exposure to English Academia. It's especially confusing because few other languages makes as much use of war metaphors as English does and they're extremely common in all forms of English literature so understanding the conventions for the use of war metaphors is difficult. In general war metaphors are mostly used in writing aimed at a lay audience to try to make it more exciting, it's almost never used in academic texts as it's seen as too flowery for any serious writing, though of course even in academic writing metaphors are used it's just that you should only use neutral ones. Otherwise your English is pretty perfect, I wouldn't have known that you aren't a native speaker if you hadn't told me and your grammar is definitely better than mine.

@DelzaPauladaMotaSwallom 7 месяцев назад

I'm Brasílian as well. I'm very impress with your level of knowledge about these groups. Is, actually, fascinanted to get to know the origins and history of these people. By the way, your inglês is perfect!

@coolguy4989 3 года назад

As a jew it's fascinating to see a religion that is so similar to mine, I'm amazed at the fact that they stll practice sacrifices. We jews haven't done that since the exile by the romans 2000 years ago so all the connection that I have to the practice is only through what I can read in the torah, seeing it in real life is incredible! especially when it is supposed to be one of the central aspects of jewish religious practice! thank you for the video!

@AlaisDahen 3 года назад

I found that interesting as a Catholic as well. I wonder how they reason doing sacrifice without the temple or even the tabernacle, seeing as the temple and tabernacle were to be the places of sacrifice given the true presence of God either on the mercy seat or within the holy of holies. Rather interesting. In our Christian New Testament, it was also stated that one of their places of worship was at the well of Jacob. It's interesting how so similar religions can be so divergent, even between us Christians and the Jewish belief (albeit a bit more so since we believe the Messiah has come and the Jews don't). Even moreso between your faith and the faith of the Samaritans. It's almost like us (Catholics) and the Orthodox Christians (there's basically only 7 or so differences).

@trentbresler3179 3 года назад

@@AlaisDahen the bible tells us that clearly there was sacrifice Before the temple and before the tabernacle. Look at Cain and able or when Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, even when they were in Egypt they asked the Pharaoh for 3 days to go Sacrifice to the lord, and we know that the Passover was done before they left Egypt. So in my eyes he just formalized it with the laws but blood sacrifice was happening long before the Temple.

@hoathanatos6179 3 года назад

@@AlaisDahen Well the Samaritans see Mt. Gerizim as the holiest site in the Holy Land and so the sacrifices are done there. The Judean temple means nothing to them and their faith as Israelites where the Israelite Temple at Mt. Gerizim plays the same role as the Temple of Jerusalem does for the Jewish people.

@AlaisDahen 3 года назад

@@hoathanatos6179 yeah, but I mean why do they think that?

@coolguy4989 3 года назад

@@trentbresler3179 this is actually very different, in jewish theology we believe that there are 613 commandments given to us by God in the torah, practically every single part of modern and ancient Jewish practice is based on the 613 commandments (including all of the temple sacrifices), the sacrifices that you are describing happened before the torah was revealed so they are a very different kind of worship

@cuckoophendula8211 3 года назад

To the Christians watching this video, this is great contextualization for the parable of the Good Samaritan. EDIT: Lol, I find it unsurprising yet cool that I'm not the only one pointing this out

@SomethingBeautifulHandcrafts 3 года назад

Also explains why Jesus took his message to the Samaritan woman at the well. He was explicit that He had come for the lost of Israel, which included the Samaritans.

@grizzerotwofour7858 3 года назад

Anyone one of those "why haven't i looked this up on my own yet" topics from your channel! Love it

@lakrids-pibe 3 года назад

I noticed in the old picture of Solomon's temple in the video, and it made me think that it would be interesting to hear about the design of the temple. We only know the temple from written descriptions, and modern reconstructions have many suggestions on how it can be interpreted. I know architecture is not the main topic of this channel, but I just love the old (and new) drawings.

@baruch.mizrahi 2 года назад

I’ve actually seen a picture of the map of where and how the temple’s sections were located and built. But I do know an organisation called The Temple Institute that talks about the temple and all of that stuff.

@shainazion4073 2 года назад

Look up Norma Robertson on RU-vid, She has all the Temple information.

@davidgusquiloor2665 3 года назад

This gives the good samaritan a little more context.

@harrisonwinch2527 3 года назад

I know its a bit outside your typical timeframe, but could you do a video on Byzantine Iconoclasm in the 8th and 9th centuries, and the subsequent rise of icons in Eastern Orthodox Christianity? It's a fascinating example of how categories like "orthodoxy" and "heresy" are constructed and reimagined over time, and continues to have huge significance today in the widespread use of icons in Greek and Russian Orthodox Christianity.

@hedgehog3180 2 года назад

Also how Byzantium started to identify itself as a sorta second Isreal.

@abnerbinyamimmenashe9453 3 года назад

I really enjoyed this video from a scholarly perspective and would like to thank you for giving more exposure in the academic world about the Israelite Samaritans and how we are NOT a disappearing people, how we are very different from Jews, and about the archeological, historical and religious information about us. You all feel welcome to come and JOIN Studies Shomrey haTorah GROUP TO LEARN WITH US. We have plenty of articles and studies on Israelite Samaritan Torah and tradition. - Abner from the Official Israelite Samaritan Community - Shomrey HaTorah.

@jsw7814 3 года назад

Really great presentation but I have a couple of issues. Firstly, I am a researcher of Karaite Judaism which has some similarities to Samaritanism (there were contacts between the two and even an ill-fated attempt to unite the two communities by the adventurous Karaite eccentric Abraham Firkovich). I’ve published some books on the subject. You say that Samaritans consider the Jewish center of worship at Jerusalem “a mistake”. I’m not sure I would characterize it that way- just like the Jewish take on the Samaritan sanctification of Gerizim is certainly not viewed as a mistake but as something more sinister. Then again, the ancient record is not exactly crystal clear on these issues. Secondly, the group of Brazilians who are converting to Samaritanism is a fairly modern phenomenon. I’ve come across the leader of this group (who claims converso ancestry); while initially expressing interest in returning in normative Judaism, he (they) was put off by what he perceived to be contradictions in the Jewish scriptures. One of the things that perturbed him the most was the fact that King David was descended of a Moabite (Ruth) and yet the Hebrew Bible expressly forbids the conversion of Moabites perpetually (the Rabbinic tradition deal with this and says that conversion was only forbidden for males but not for females). Samaritanism of course views the Davific dynasty as illegitimate usurpers.

@tzvi7989 3 года назад

Then again in the modern day, these differences shouldn't matter between us. Both Shomronim and us Jews are all b'nei yisrael after all

@macosta3499 Год назад

Who is the samaritan leader in Brasil and do they have an online presence? Would like to know as a Brazillian

@shayalynn Год назад

Interesting information, thanks for sharing!

@erictaylor5462 3 года назад

I knew there was a good reason Jesus chose a Samaritan in his story about helping others in need.

@chendaforest 3 года назад

Is like this related ? Like the good Samaritan was a Samaritan ?

@chendaforest 3 года назад

@Yam Samam thank you. I know little of such matters 🙏

@KaiHenningsen 3 года назад

@@madmonkee6757 How about a black guy, or an immigrant, or ...?

@jacquesstrapp3219 3 года назад

@@KaiHenningsen Any despised minority would work for this parable.

@KaiHenningsen 3 года назад

@@jacquesstrapp3219 Exactly, and the US certainly has those.

@grahamrankin4725 3 года назад

As usual, a very well researched video. I especially liked knowing their current status in Israel

@dark_fire_ice 3 года назад

I love history, and this is why; one is either trying to revive a narrative or see more of an on going narrative.

@projectbreadwinners2942 3 года назад

Every video on this channel is a gem. Always packed with information. I’d love a longer more fleshed out video on this topic.

@donaldseigel4101 3 года назад

Samaritans are a mix between the Israelites who were not captured and exiled to modern day Iraq, and the Cuthites from South Western Iran who were forced to immigrate to ancient Israel. "Modern genetics partially support both the claims of the Samaritans and the account in the Hebrew Bible (and Talmud), suggesting that the genealogy of the Samaritans lies in some combination of these two accounts. This suggests that the Samaritans remained a genetically isolated population."

@fernandov1492 3 года назад

Please do a video with "Let's talk religion". Much love from México, keep putting out excellent content.

@Inhumantics 3 года назад

Thanks so much for sharing the full story of people who have come from great antiquity, may be misunderstood and are still around today!

@christophermccurry8039 3 года назад

Very fascinating. These two groups illustrate something I have always found curious, religions believing a cosmic entity has extremely close ties or reliance on a specific spot, in a certain region, on a small planet, in a vast universe.

@kellydalstok8900 3 года назад

And groups declaring themselves the chosen people. Which is not unlike the nazis declaring themselves Übermenschen.

@christophermccurry8039 3 года назад

@@kellydalstok8900 while I agree with the overall point I see the effect of Godwin's Law is wasting no time tonight XD

@Ataturkinator 2 года назад

@@kellydalstok8900 "The chosen people" doesn't mean that Jews are in any way better than non-Jews, in fact it's commonly joked that we were chosen to have a worse time than non-Jews. "The people chosen" works better as a translation than "The chosen people", as the idea is that the Jews were chosen to practice God's wishes on earth; not chosen to be inherently better or something

@generalgrievous2202 3 месяца назад

@@Ataturkinatoralmost like a conscription, so to speak, they were "conscripted" to enact God's will

@gimassaro5 3 года назад

Hey Andrew! Awesome video, thank you! Could you please reference to any sources or news about this Brazilian Samaritan conversion movement? I'm Brazilian and I'm really interested in founding out more!

@ReligionForBreakfast 3 года назад

The research article is by Fanny Urien-Lefranc, published in 2020 in the journal Religions: "From Religious to Cultural and Back Again: Tourism Development, Heritage Revitalization, and Religious Transnationalizations among the Samaritans"

@aldsidu8600 3 года назад

They are on Facebook with a huge group of over 13,000 of them. One group (American) with 160 or so members is: Studies Shomrey haTorah. There are a couple of the Brazilian leaders on that English page. The page with over 13,000 members are pretty much literally all from Brazil, and it is in Portugeese I believe. I can't remember the name now. Join the English page and ask, and you will be directed to them.

@hyperion3145 3 года назад

They're also on the Samaritan Israelite website

@Wintermute01001 Год назад

It's interesting how the story of the Good Samaritan was taught to me in Catholic School. It was taught as a call for ethnic and national tolerance but there was little emphasis on the *religious* differences between Jews and Samaritans, which would make the story a call for religious tolerance as well.

@Chuck_Carolina 3 года назад

Andrew, as a Christian Elder and lay leader I really like your content and want to thank you for the permission to use it. I take some guff from time to time over my thirst for knowledge when it comes to history and archeology in some circles; us Christians, being judgmental - imagine that! Stay thirsty my friend,

@aaronturner2694 Год назад

This is a fascinating period of time and I am glad to be here to study with you all!

@ahmedkol7605 Год назад

توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس والقلوب Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the hearts and the souls..

@ebrim5013 Год назад

This was so fascinating, thanks for making it!

@ahmedkol7605 Год назад

توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس والقلوب Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the hearts and the souls..

@valdo9737 2 года назад

This is the most comprehensive, objective and plausible video I've watched on the subject of the Samaritans

@grimmace2131 3 года назад

Wow! That was a great video. I'll admit I was under the impression that they were a Biblical "fossil" as well. A fascinating history!

@thebusybrownangel5829 2 года назад

This was a great video. I see many people think of the Good Samaritan account, but this brought to mind for me the account of the woman at the well. The scriptures say the well was near a parcel of land given to Joseph by Jacob. The Samaritan woman said the well was given to them by their father Jacob. She asked Yeshua if He was greater than their father, Jacob. Yeshua stayed in Samaria and taught them for two days. He didn’t do that with gentiles.

@josephzammit8483 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UWktcW5iR6M.html

@jojones4685 3 года назад

I was researching the modern samaritans yesterday. What a coincidence

@tiagoSS90 3 года назад

Wait brazil? What does brazil have to do with samaritans? I would like to read more about it. Is there a source for it. It wouldn't be a problem if sources were in either Spanish, Portuguese or English Thanks

@chendaforest 3 года назад

I don't know but I've heard of other groups in Brazil converting to other religions like Zoroastrianism, which has also become something of an ethno religious group. This may reflect Brazil's huge cultural and ethnic diversity in some way...

@LightUpTheSkys 3 года назад

@luizmenezes9971 3 года назад

Brazilians loves weird minority and threatened religions and cultures that they clearly don't belong to. Google for tupiniviking.

@chendaforest 3 года назад

@@luizmenezes9971 Obrigada! Something about Norse/Viking/European connections ??

@luizmenezes9971 3 года назад

@@chendaforest It's a portmanteau of Tupiniquim (one of the many native tribes from Brazil) and Viking. Because a lot of brazilian metalheads worship norse gods. Conversely, many pagan reconstructionists (Norse reconstructionists included) uses Umbanda (an Afro-Brazilian religion) as inspiration to fill the gaps for the traditions and rituals they've lost due to christian anti-pagan zeal. The "tupiniviking" (an exonym) are aware of it, and use to point out to the folkists (the racists that insists only norse descendents can worship the Aesir) that their religion is white washed macumba (another exonym for Umbanda).

@friedkeenan 3 года назад

Ok so I know this isn't related to the video, but I think a video on (our theories about) Proto-Indo-European religion and how it's deduced from a combination of comparative mythology and comparative linguistics would be really really cool

@friedkeenan 3 года назад

@@muhametalijaj7838 It is indeed _fairly_ speculative, but the way you can concretely deduce that PIE people had some sort of Sky-Father from language alone is super cool. And that Rome's foundation myth of Romulus and Remus could very well have come from/influenced by one of the PIE creation myth stories where *Manu (man) kills *Yemo (twin) to create humanity and all that (Remus probably comes from *Yemo, looking at the etymological evidence) is super interesting to think about. I want Andrew to make a video on it because while reading wikipedia is fine and all, I'd like a more firmly scholarly view on stuff to help sus out the more concrete from the more speculative

@bigscarysteve 3 года назад

@@friedkeenan Are you familiar with a RU-vid channel called "Survive the Jive"? He covers these topics a lot. He has several videos about the Indo-European concept of the soul and reincarnation, in which he pulls together quotes from Plato, Ovid, and the Buddhist scriptures to present evidence for the older concept of these things--I find that particularly fascinating.

@friedkeenan 3 года назад

@@bigscarysteve I've read that Greek mythology isn't a great source for reversing PIE religion because of its frequent interaction and melding with the near east. Anyhow, I find things that rely _solely_ on comparative mythology quite a bit less concrete than things backed up through linguistics. The example I jump to for explaining why is how stories of a flood engulfing the whole world are common throughout several disparate cultures, Indo-European and otherwise, but it would not make sense to say that they all came from one religion/mythology. However, when things are found through linguistics, it really does show rather concretely that PIE had words to describe such things as Sky-Father and lends credence to the fact that they had a god in their pantheon that fit such a role, whether or not that same figure themselves transformed into Jupiter, Zeus, etc. over the millenia

@il967 3 года назад

I know tha Dheous is the sky father of the PIE people.

@varana 3 года назад

@@friedkeenan Although that tends to isolate the PIE people in a way that we cannot prove (nor disprove). It's quite likely that the culture we can reconstruct through historical linguistics, also had been in contact with other cultures, and had been extensively influenced by others. PIE is not a pure state of origin, it's just a random snapshot of the time where our linguistic reconstruction happens to end. (Not to mention that referring to a single PIE religion is maybe oversimplifying.) The topic is really interesting, yes. I'm not sure that that level of linguistic speculation falls into RfB's field of interest, though.

@codyjoco 3 года назад

Great video, however my 19 month daughter waved at you and said hi the entire video and you didn’t wave back, so she got mad! 😂

@Pogomeerschweinchen 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this fantastic summary. This is so helpful to understand the rich history of Judaism!

@lshulman58 3 года назад

6:30 "will the true Israelites please stand up." Reminds me of something I have heard regarding the Roman Catholics vs. Orthodox churches: which one is the "true" or "original" church, and which broke away? Perspective that favors ones own group is always suspect due to self-serving bias.

@ntmn8444 3 года назад

They’re both the original and true church. They just split because of disagreements. But I as Catholic completely accept Orthodox Christians as the same, even if they’re not in communion with Rome.

@mohamadamirulashrafbinfadz692 3 года назад

Nice sharing. I'm students of comparative religions as well and very interested currently on Haymanot Judaism practised by the Ethiopian Jews community. How about if you cover about them in your next video, I believe it will be an interesting topic as not so much about them being discussed yet in the RU-vid.

@KaitlynBurnellMath 3 года назад

So, one thing that has bothered me about Samaritans--we have plenty of evidence for the antiquity of Samaritan israelites, DNA that suggests their Levites are related to Jewish Levites. You bring up that DNA evidence suggests only their capital was destroyed by the Assyrians--also very relevant. But scholars also think that the Torah/Pentateuch went through a number of final redaction processes that happened during Persian rule, after the Babylonian exile, and also much during the Babylonian exile. And the Samaritan Torah is so close to the Jewish Torah (outside of mentions of Gherazim) that the only sensible explanation is that it was shared. This doesn't really line up with the timeline where Samaritan israelites and Judeans were distinct with distinct scriptures and hating each other by the second temple period. There must have still been sharing going on between Judea and Gherazim during or after the second temple period. Either that, or the dates of authorship we've estimated on parts of the Torah post-dating the Babylonian exile must be way off. Of course, you don't need written finalized scriptures to have a religious practice and an ongoing presence in the region.

@michaelrenper796 3 года назад

It makes a bit more sense in context of what we learned from the Qumram scrolls. Namely that there was never (in antiquity) a single Jewish belief, nor two. But a wide range of sects who shared a common cultural background but fought bitterly in politics and details. If you now add politics into the game. E.g. the the returnees from Babylon establishing themselves as an elite in Jerusalem but at the same time alienating some of the local sects. Then more politics during the Greek and Romans times .... at the end two sects survived (many more died out in the last 2000 years) the Jews and the Samaritans. Who distilled two similar but distinct stories from a wide range of traditions (of which many are lost, but sometimes get a snippet like in Qumran).

@rogerlephoque3704 3 года назад

I wonder if Cohanim DNA also matches? There's a RU-vid piece out there that features a Samaritan gentleman who rejoices in the name of Abdullah Cohen!

@engineeredtruths8935 3 года назад

Yes the dating is way off. History is largely false and constructed as a lie.

@user-jr4kc6lu9q 3 года назад

@@rogerlephoque3704 The Samaritan Cohen DNA lineage is different from Jewish Cohen DNA lineages.

@tzvi7989 3 года назад

Tbh the Samaritans are basically first temple Jews who have a different site for their temple

@MatthewNehrling1 3 года назад

That was fascinating. Thank you for posting. I'm curious about a follow up with more about the culture and how they were able to survive so long. Obviously the New Testament has a unique reference to them that is favorable.

@SPQR748 3 года назад

How can two groups of people from the same area and dating back to the same era of history interpret things so differently? Santayana once said that history is a group of events that never happened, told to us by people that were not there. 🌞

@yvonnelenders5986 2 года назад

Exactly

@nielsvizgan3078 3 года назад

Great work! By far the best video regarding Samaritan Israelites on RU-vid

@YenkammaNe 3 года назад

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@sandro-eliesaad9541 3 года назад

Huge thanks for the effort put in on this. Appreciated! (nice haircut and congrats for the new glasses btw :D )

@andrewmize823 2 года назад

I was raised in a household where the Bible was to be regarded as the literal, living word of God, and any attempt at reading it critically or expanding upon the rote scripture would have been generally frowned upon--so needless to say, the story of the Good Samaritan was the absolute limit to my knowledge about Samaritanism. I'm not religious anymore in the strictest sense of the word, but I do enjoy reading the Bible from a literary standpoint, and this video helped me gain insight into something I've mostly overlooked in the past.

@bortiz11 3 года назад

Fantastic subject and delivery! I love learning, and your teaching skills. Thank you!

@jadcohen2773 2 года назад

great documentary! im proud to be a samaritan!

@annecohen8927 10 месяцев назад

wow. I never knew anything about the Samaritans that also were known to be Israelites. I am so glad to be coming in here. to learn more.

@chilldragon4752 3 года назад

I would love to hear your thoughts on Taoism. Love the videos.

@joshfranks9732 3 года назад

Yeah that would be cool

@garyjohnson301 3 года назад

Taoism and Buddhism are really interesting to me

@covenawhite4855 3 года назад

There is another You Tube Channel called "Let's Talk Religion" who discusses Taoism, Hinduism, Gnostic, and Christianity.

@cudgethewise 3 года назад

My word, a new favorite channel.

@myszowaty93 3 года назад

Apropos lesser known “offshoots”of Judaism I would love to see your analysis of Karaism

@django7783 Год назад

Man, I am from Brazil. I got completely surprised in the end of your video!

@raysjb 3 месяца назад

I think it would have been good to include mention of modern genetic analysis that shows that Samaritans are in fact descendants of Israelites, not foreign immigrants or of mixed origin.

@jorenbosmans8065 3 года назад

Not the focus of this channel, but I am curious about how the Current day relation between Samaritans and Muslims is as they don't consider Jerusalem important. I would guess it can go several ways.

@lachlanmacrae7054 3 года назад

Was thinking the same thing!

@tstarr8314 3 года назад

If by current day relations you are referring to the Islamic law which protects the people of the book, the respect and protection still applies. The people of the book are those who follow revelation (the Torah, Psalms, Quran, etc) and the Smaritans follow the Torah; it's not the place of Muslims to decide theological differences between Jewish sects. The ruling about the people of the book comes directly from the Quran, so it cannot be changed. But it's also important to note that there is no Khalifa (overall ruler of Muslims and Islamic lands) and no avenue for someone to be declared Khalifa. If a Muslim government decided to discriminate against or persecute the Samaritans they would be going against the law of God as well as international human rights laws. If you mean the political relations between Muslims and Samaritans in Palestine, I think the media neglects to mention that there are Christians and other religious groups also living in Palestine who are being attacked by Israel. I don't know of any tensions between Palestinian Muslims and Palestinian Samaritans. They are both on the same side of the barbed wire fence afterall.

@jorenbosmans8065 3 года назад

@@tstarr8314 I'm aware of the Islamic law reasons and it is still An interesting part of their law. But the part I am interested in is the political one. I know that Palestinians aren't only Muslims, but the Samaritans seem to be a bit more different than the Christians. They can claim Israeli citizenship and appearantly wish to do so, but some still live in Palestina. They Also have no claims for Temple mountain, but say it has absolutely no religious value. So yeah, a bit weird. I'm Also unaware of tensions with this group, but wasn't aware they still existed.

@AlaisDahen 3 года назад

I think the Muslims view Jerusalem as important seeing as they believe that the Dome of the Rock is where they believe that their prophet Mohammed was brought to Heaven, albeit, if I understand correctly, Mecca is a more important for them. If you meant the Samaritans though, that would be pretty interesting not only on a political aspect but even a religious one.

@jorenbosmans8065 3 года назад

@@AlaisDahen yeah, the Dome of the rock is important for Muslims and a topic of debat with Jews as they (Generalizing) want to rebuild their Temple on that place. I find the Samaritan perspective interesting as they give no value to that mountain, so to them the Dome of the rock van just stay.

@John-14798 10 месяцев назад

*Could you please tell us about Mesopotamia, what and where was it? Thank you for creating this video, I was always so curious when watching ancient history channels of who exactly are the Samaritan’s so thank you so much.* 🙏🏾

@redman9331 11 месяцев назад

So basically Samaritan are just ancient Hebrews who stayed in former ancient Israel kingdom after the conquest of Roman but adopted different view of ancient Hebrew religion separated from the school of thought which later became Judaism. In essence , Jews and Samaritans are same people with same religion but different sects.

@عليياسر-ذ5ب 10 месяцев назад

You mean a European person raped by Slavs and Germans, along with a person who resembles the indigenous people of the Middle East

@betheva5917 9 месяцев назад

What Jesus said to the Samaritan woman was that (while Samaritans worship on Mt Gerazim and the Jews in Jerusalem) the day would come that they would worship in neither place but would worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

@LucasSampaioMaia 3 года назад

I am brazillian. I would love to know more about brazillians trying to convert. It's the first time I heard of It!

@otisarmyalso 5 месяцев назад

Sicilian findings very interesting. The Temple at Gerizem is impressive structure viewed from afar... as was my privilege during visits to Israel

@jacobshore 3 года назад

Interesting. One point of clarification. The Pentateuch manuscripts found at Qumran vary significantly from the Masoretic Pentateuch. I have studied the Dead Sea Scrolls, and while there are variants in the Bible, the Pentateuch is rather surprisingly consistent (other than in consistently spelling things slightly differently (example: vowel helper letters are added) and letter shape). I'm not sure how that would lead one to the conclusion that there was no excepted version of the Pentateuch. Are you contesting this assertion or drawing this conclusion from something else ( like variants in the Prophets and Writings?)

@porkadillo9752 3 года назад

The fact that there are 3 very ancient versions of the Penteteuch is itself proof of the text's flexibility in ancient times. Being mostly consistent is not the same as being entirely consistent, especially where theology is concerned. There were likely many different editions of the Pentateuch that we'll never know about, and I guarantee every single one of them claimed to be the proper edition.

@tzvi7989 3 года назад

@@porkadillo9752 they likely have a common ancestor tho and diverged due to the local politics of each sect at the time

@grafinvonhohenembs 3 года назад

This was insanely interesting! This channel is amazing!

@StopTheLiess 9 месяцев назад

Samrawit is a popular name in Ethiopia meaning a girl from Samra referring to the woman in the Bible.

@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 3 года назад

I read into samaritans a while ago; apparently to prevent samaritanism from dying out the government of israel was considering buying mail order brides from ukraine and russia to help them produce more children and avoid inbreeding (since they don't tend to marry with non-samaritans)

@TheEDBShow 3 года назад

Israel didn't "buy" the brides. The Samaritan community sent out flyers inviting mail-order brides to come and convert.

@sharshabeel621 3 года назад

The main Samaritan community isn't under Israeli jurisdiction, nor is their holy sight. The Samaritans ordered them on their own.

@deanedward2379 3 года назад

@@petarjovanovic1481 Israeli government you mean. Samaritan Israelites are valid Israeli/Jordanian/Palestinian citizens recognized by the state of Israel.

@ntmn8444 3 года назад

They do have a lot of women from Eastern Europe come and convert into their faith for marriage. There aren’t many women in the community, and I read only 6 families are around now. Pretty crazy. I want to go visit them. They are the Northern Israelites spoken of in the Bible.

@ninaaden8338 2 года назад

It's interesting and contradictory how they tend to not marry with non Samaritan's, yet bring over mail order brides from ukraine

@stargatis 3 года назад

Loving your voice and calm tone🙂

@ABird971 3 года назад

I guess knowledge of references to Samaritans in the New-Testament is assumed. Interesting that they're not mentioned in this video.

@JennyFB1281 3 года назад

Do you plan to do a video about the Druze? I went to Israel years ago and met a few Druze people, very cool people, but I didn't really understand their religion. They basically described it as a branch of Islam, but with significant differences.

@jotarokujo1171 3 года назад

16:20 Its always Brazil

@nunyabiznes33 3 года назад

Everyone wants to come to Brazil! *Braziiiil Lalalala*

@andred7684 3 года назад

@@nunyabiznes33 xD I really wished that was the case, I've heard about Brazilians converting to Judaism but to Samaritanism I've never heard of, that's interesting. 🤔

@georgescoresby 2 года назад

Such a good effort to explain a difficult subject. Thank you.

@toocutepuppies6535 3 года назад

I asked my sweet Grandma why she had changed religions so many times in her life and she told me, "I don't want to finally enter heaven and find out I belonged to the wrong church." So apparently, God has a specific church he approves of, but we all have to guess which one that is at our own perial!

@tafazzi-on-discord 2 года назад

It's not a guess, it's an investigation God does want us to go through.

@shayalynn Год назад

Church is not the correct word in my opinion. Church denotes institution or a physical building where people assemble. In the Greek Scriptures, it uses ‘ecclesia’ which means the assembly. Spiritually, it was never really about the building [who can contain the Presence of God?] but it’s about where His people are. In the first century when someone became a proselyte or converted to Judaism as Christianity wasn’t termed yet- you wouldn’t look for a building but you would look for where the assembly [the people gathered for one purpose, of one mind] was at. They usually went to each others houses and shared communion. Sadly, Catholicism claims to be the original apostolic church when the Acts of the Apostles speak for themselves, as well as the other Epistle writings. It’s sorta resembles how Echad is a Hebrew word that translates as "one" or “unity." This idea of unity - being many parts yet one unit, although echad has other nuance meanings. It’s described in Ezekiel 37, similarly, that God plans one day to bring together the two rebellion-split houses of Israel and Judah. There will not be a king in the Northern Kingdom Israel and a king in the Southern Kingdom Judah. God will take their two "sticks" or "rods" (symbols of their authority) and rejoin them as one scepter under "David," the future Messiah. I will make them an undivided nation [goy echad] in the Land . . . One single King [melech echad] will be king for all of them, And they will no longer be two nations, And they will no longer be divided into two kingdoms. (Ezek 37:22) Some believe this union of the two kingdoms is also a compound or composite unity of two parts. But that's precisely not the point here. Their once individual, self-willed identities will disappear; they will become one nation, under God, indivisible. As originally intended, the one people will be ruled by Messiah, the Echad King [melech echad].

@RorySeanWainer 8 месяцев назад

Very interesting ... thank you

@changer1285 3 года назад

Beautiful thank you so much! I love learning about the diversity in isrealite religion!

@gputsche 3 года назад

Really insightful! Thank you.

@daesoulae 3 года назад

can we get a video on nestorianism pls?

@MrLantean 2 года назад

From what I had read, not all Israelites were deported to other parts of the Assyrian Empire when the Kingdom of Israel was annexed. Only the poorest were left behind to maintain local infrastructures. They then intermarried with settlers brought in from other parts of the Assyrian Empire. Their descendants became known as Samaritans. They maintain an ancient form of worship in Jewish religion. In a way, the Samaritans can be considered as living descendants of the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel. According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Samaritans are descended from pagans who were resettled in Israel by the Assyrians and later converted to Jewish religion while retaining some pagan traditions. The deported 10 Lost Tribes most likely ceased to exist as their descendants never retain their cultural identity and assimilated into local populations. In contrast, the Judean Jews retained their cultural identity during the captivity in Babylon while embracing local culture.

@cherieamour671 2 года назад

My grands mothers were Samaritains, I never being interested by Samartanism. However I wonder if Jersim and jerusalem are not the same word said with differents accents, this is just my opinion I have not much historical nor religious knowledge. The Samaritian are a very old Nation I doubt they have any Iranian origine, they are true Semtic race. Samaritains are the old version of the israelites. However I am very relaxed about religion difference, I do sincerely to respect every one in his beleive.

@jmaraf7741 3 года назад

Will this have subtitles for the deaf viewers like me? I'm really interested in learning about the Samaritans. Thanks.

@jmaraf7741 3 года назад

Thank you so much for the subtitles!

@hereBDBD 2 года назад

so many stories within stories...beautiful. thank you...

@2tehnik 3 года назад

If one of the ideas was showing a side of how Samaritarians aren't a "mastodon," I feel like it somewhat failed. I'm not sure I see how they evolved in those 2000 years, more so just how they had some issues being accepted socially (which is the standard misreading Andrew is saying we shouldn't focus too much on).

@letsomethingshine 3 года назад

His point was that Mark Twain was comparing them to an extinct species still found in low population, but Samaritans have never been "extinct" only endangered, despite all the lies from the anti-Samaritans who wish that Samaritans not be protected so that their narratives can roll along better and not cause them cognitive dissonance while loving their own mythologies.

@MatthewCaunsfield 3 года назад

I had no idea they were still around, thanks for correcting that gap in in my knowledge

@ef2718 3 года назад

There's almost 800 of them.

@mrniceguy7168 3 года назад

Samaritans have always fascinated me on a genetic level, since they are ostensibly what the ancient Jews were like

@user-jr4kc6lu9q 3 года назад

Egyptian Karaite Jews are also genetically very close to the original Israelites -- moreso than other Jewish groups.

@paradise1group 3 года назад

I’m so glad NordVPN is sponsoring your content, it’s very informative.

@ethanbartlett8208 3 года назад

Hey Andrew, have you ever thought about doing a review of Richard Smolley's "How God Became God."? It would tie in nicely with this video because it deals with how in ancient Israel there was never just one narrative or interpretation of the Torah.

@kylesty6728 3 года назад

Wonderful as always.

@jeanfalconer6377 3 года назад

Wow, this re-contextualises The Good Samaritan in an entirely different way, thank you.

@NovaSaber 3 года назад

No, it's the original, correct context. The point of the story was that you should be kind to anyone who's kind to you, regardless of ethnic or religious differences. FAR too many Christians throughout history have missed the point.

@ntmn8444 3 года назад

@@NovaSaber yes, it’s crazy to me how that seems to have gone over people’s heads here.

@nozrep 2 года назад

growing up in a “Southern Baptist” church we were always taught that the Samaritans in the Bible were like, mixed families of Jews and Gentiles that had retained Jewish religion, and because they were not not “pure blood” Jews, that was the reason why ancient Jews were racist against them. I dunno how accurate that is but this video is fascinating. Anyways, the teaching was always taught alongside the parable of the Good Samaritan where Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan being merciful to the mugged and beaten man while others ignored him and walked by and continued on. Thereby, the parable’s and Jesus’s illustration of how we as Christians should act towards all strangers or even people we do not agree with religiously and philosophically.

@ronsandahl274 2 года назад

The difference here is that one was the religion of the Kingdom of Israel, and one was the religion of the Kingdom of Judah. Around 740 BCE when the Kingdom of Israel, whose capital was Samaria, refused to pay the homage demanded by Assyria, the Assyrians razed Samaria and took 30,000 Samaritans into bondage. A large percentage of Samaritans who were not enslaved fled Samaria to the smaller kingdom of Judah to the south. It was this influx that allowed Judah to grow from a small, agrarian kingdom to a larger, walled city-state. Judah had to combine the Samaritans beliefs (like worship of Yahweh's consort Asheroth) with their own. But the greatest difference would not emerge until after the Babylonian captivity. Around 587 BCE the Judeans, just like the Israelites before them, refused to pay the homage demanded by the new Babylonian rulers, who then razed Jerusalem and took the Judeans into slavery. The captive Judeans resided in Babylon for 60 years until being freed ironically by the Assyrians. Only 10% of the Jews living in Babylon decided to return to Jerusalem. So few returned in fact that most of Jerusalem remained in ruins for over 150 years, and Babylon had the largest Jewish population until the Middle Ages. None of the Jews who returned had ever been to Jerusalem before, and their culture and religion was vastly influenced by Babylon. This is where the difference in alphabet between Samaria and Jerusalem emerges (they both used paleo-hebrew until the return, when the Judeans began using the Babylonians script they still use today). The Jewish calendar had also been changed to match the Babylonian one (the Jewish names of the months are Babylonian, as are changing the calendar from a tool used by priests to mark festival days into what the calendar became). Modern religious archaeologist have determined that the entire unified kingdom was a fabrication, that the big Canaanite enemy had actually left Palestine during the Bronze Age Collapse, about 200 years before the founding of Israel, and that both the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah were small tribal kingdoms and not large powers, with "kings" Solomon and David actually being more like tribal leaders than kings of a vast kingdom. Lastly, the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Israel technically weren't Jews. Jew is a term derived as a contraction of Judah or Judean, and so only applies to the people and culture derived from Judah. Both cultures are Hebrew, and that should be the term used in discussing them both.

@homebrandrules Год назад

fascinating, todah

@shambles5345 8 месяцев назад

Wonderful video, incredibly informative. I love learning about the Samaritans

@elisharason7819 3 года назад

Thank you for this very informative video!!! ❤️🙏i myself an friends with some of them and have been learning about them and with them from abood cohen the grandson of kohen abed'el ben asher ben maSkiaH, the current high priest

@elihyland4781 3 года назад

This blows my mind. Did not know any of this

@raminagrobis6112 2 года назад

I was raised as a Catholic. Whenever the term of "Samaritans" was encountered at mass or in catechism classes, the idea that they were people ostracized by the "real" Jews was what was conveyed to us. Hence the notion of the "Good Samaritan" in Jesus parable: we were told that Samaritans were considered as an inferior group of people (although their connection to Judaism was unclear). Much like Philistines. The "Good" epithet was used in the parable not only because of the charitable action he had towards the sick and poor man he had encountered, but also because he was otherwise regarded as somewhat "evil" due to his sociological label. What's terrible with that type of education that we received and that interpretation of biblical texts is that pure prejudices were conveyed as knowledge. I didn't know why or how Samaritans were inferior in any way. Only that Jews looked at them that way. Thanks to educational videos like this one, errors from the past can be corrected. As usual, superlative material! Thanks.

@hudasabana7404 9 месяцев назад

Check other videos where they look deep into the religious practices of the Samaritans, it's so close to Islam.

@raminagrobis6112 9 месяцев назад

@@hudasabana7404 What you said helps to understand the palpable hostility of Jews towards Samaritans.

@reepacheirpfirewalker8629 2 года назад

My Rabbi explained what he knew about them and a portion of why there was that split and why during the time of Jesus that there was the feeling towards them from the Jews in Judiah. He said there were mountains around near to the Jerusalem Mountain they needed to have more than one person to light a fire for the New Moon which was almost the most important part of life. The lunar calendar was and is till important to know when the head of the month begins. They would light fires to try and force the ones not Samaritans into their religious rites.

@thesinfultictac5704 3 года назад

The fact the Jerusalem, Tel Shiloh, and Mt.Garaziem all were contenders for El's favor points to a much more complicated history of Israelites, and their Canaanite history.