Tag: samaritans?
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Interpreting The Samaritans Of Acts 8 The Waterloo Of Pentecostal Soteriology And Pneumatology
Interpreting The Waterloo the Samaritans of Acts 8: of Pentecostal Soteriology and Pneumatology? Max Turner There is clearly a deliberate ambiguity in the title….
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How can there be Babylonian ideas in the Samaritan Torah if the Samaritans were never exiled?
In the Torah, the first five books of the bible, there are various narratives that bear strong resemblance to various Babylonians myths. Notably the story of creation, Adam and Eve, and the flood all have Babylonian precursors. These are d…
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Did the Jews truly have nothing to do with the Samaritans? (John 4:9)
Note: this question does not deal with WHY the Jews shunned Samaritans. Rather, it questions the extent to which such shunning actually took place in the Biblical and historical records. In the Gospel of John the narrator tells us "Je…