Part 34 - The Good Samaritan (A)

Aug 23, 2025    Daniel Joseph

Topics covered include:

- The Cultural Impact of The Parable of the Good Samaritan

- The Year 722 BCE – Assyria and the Northern Kingdom

- Displaced Peoples – A Priest – The Torah

- The Levites Abandon Jeroboam

- Demographics & Syncretism in Samaria

- Different Textual Traditions

- Samaritans, Mt. Gerizim & The Torah

- Justin Martyr & The Samaritans

- Observations on Samaria from Josephus

- The Doublemindedness of the Samaritans

- The Distinction Between Gentiles & Samaritans

- Samaritan Ideology in the Hebrew Roots Movement

- The Samaritan Woman & Yeshua


Bible verses include:

- 2Kings 17:6, 18, 22-29

- 2Chronicles 11:13-15

- Matthew 10:5

- John 4:7-9, 12, 20-26


Additional resources:

- The Anchor Bible Dictionary – Commentary on the Samaritans

- Justin Martyr 100 - 165 ad – Dialogue with Trypho

- Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews

- The Mishna, Berakut 8:8 E

- The Babylonian Talmud