Samaritans?

Question

where the Samaritans consider as unclean?

Answer 1

Yes, but The Samaritans are the descendants of the ancient northern kingdom of israel .
This remnant are the heirs of the Ten Lost Tribes that still bear the flag of the ancient sanctuaries of Israel.Their history overlaps that of the Kingdom of Judea. Both kingdoms bear witness to a glorious common history, till the period of Eli .Eli the priest, was of the lineage of Itamar, a son of Aaron, and he took for himself the High priesthood as written in Samuel 1 , chapter one. However the Priesthood belonged to Uzi Ben Bahki, of the lineage of Phinehas of whom the priesthood was promised in Numbers 25:11-13. Eli had persisted to take the position of High priest while Uzi was still a young boy when he was assigned to be High Priesthood.

Two centers of worship developed from consequence of Eli's actions.
The israeli people had to choose between Mount Gerizim , the Holy Place, with the High priest Uzi the descendant of Phinehas or Shilo with Eli, a descendant of Itamar. (Years after, in the 14th century CE, the last priest of the lineage of Phinehas, Solomon Ben Phinehas, was died, without children, and the priesthood passed to the lineage of Itamar Ben Aaron the brother of Moses the Prophet)
This brought about the first religious division among the Israel and the priestly house.

In the 4th century C.E, the Samaritans numbered over one million.
They dwelled throughout Isreal, even from southern Syria to northern Egypt. For many generations the Samaritans were persecuted by their adversaries. This nearly brought about their total elimination. At the beginning of the 20th century, only 150 had survived. Today in Israel, the sect numbers about 600 souls, in their own special neighborhoods on Mount Gerizim, and in Holon near Tel Aviv.
Despite the fact, that the Samaritans are the most ancient people in the world, from a demographic point of view ,it would seem that it is a younger society than average.
The samaritans have their own form of writing, the Ancient hebrew script, their own historical traditions, dating back to the creation of the world. Their own news paper, A.B-The Samaritans News appears biweekly.

The samaritan religion is based on four principles of faith, which are the basic beliefs of followers of the religion. these four principles of faith are read by the samaritan at the beginning of every prayer and the are:
1. One God-The God of Israel;
2. One Prophet-Moses Ben Amram;
3. The Belief in The TORAH-the first five books of the bible.
4.One Holy Place-Mount Gerizim.
To these principles is added the belief in the day of Vengeance and Retribution- "THE END OF THE DAYS" when the "THAEB"-son of Joseph, a prophet like Moses (Messiah") will be revealed.

Answer 2

Yes, because the Samaritans were of mixed ethnicity, part Jewish. So the Jews looked down on them. They also worshipped in a place other than the temple in Jerusalem.

Answer 3

yes they were considered unclean because they adhered to only some of the Mosaic law. They would have been better thought of if they were pagans because they thought to only do SOME things and not others was an insult to the entire religion.

Answer 4

Yes they were considered unclean as was everyone who was not Jewish until Jesus' sacrifice. Then that which was unclean became clean.

Answer 5

They practiced a mixture of Judaism of and paganism, and didn't keep the Jewish laws regarding ritual cleanliness. So, they were regarded like any other non-Jew and contact with them was limited.

Answer 6

Yes, the Jews saw them as being dogs.