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  1. Van Doren—Presbyterian, commenting on the Good Samaritan—makes an observation of devastating simplicity. The Samaritan did not assess nationality before acting. He saw a man lying in his own blood. That was sufficient information. One notes we have developed elaborate frameworks for determining whether persons of various categories merit assistance before proceeding. The Samaritan apparently skipped that step. It seems not to have occurred to him.
    #presbyterian #christian #samaritan

  2. Actually it turns out that he vs. heth is the most common letter confusion in #Samaritan #Genesis. That surprises me, but I've found twenty such confusions among proper names. I suspect the lack of pronunciation difference helps.
    3/2
    #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism #SamaritanPentateuch

  3. Florida, USA: Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit

    wtoc.com/2026/03/11/priest-fac

    The priest has continued to feed the homeless after the area around his church was rezoned more than a decade ago.

    #USA #Criminalize #Samaritan #FoodAid #Homeless #Florida #Priest #HalfABillion #StateHarassment #Humanitarianism

  4. Florida, USA: Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit

    wtoc.com/2026/03/11/priest-fac

    The priest has continued to feed the homeless after the area around his church was rezoned more than a decade ago.

    #USA #Criminalize #Samaritan #FoodAid #Homeless #Florida #Priest #HalfABillion #StateHarassment #Humanitarianism

  5. Florida, USA: Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit

    wtoc.com/2026/03/11/priest-fac

    The priest has continued to feed the homeless after the area around his church was rezoned more than a decade ago.

    #USA #Criminalize #Samaritan #FoodAid #Homeless #Florida #Priest #HalfABillion #StateHarassment #Humanitarianism

  6. Florida, USA: Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit

    wtoc.com/2026/03/11/priest-fac

    The priest has continued to feed the homeless after the area around his church was rezoned more than a decade ago.

    #USA #Criminalize #Samaritan #FoodAid #Homeless #Florida #Priest #HalfABillion #StateHarassment #Humanitarianism

  7. Florida, USA: Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit

    wtoc.com/2026/03/11/priest-fac

    The priest has continued to feed the homeless after the area around his church was rezoned more than a decade ago.

    #USA #Criminalize #Samaritan #FoodAid #Homeless #Florida #Priest #HalfABillion #StateHarassment #Humanitarianism

  8. I'm perhaps a little obsessed with foreign names in the #HebrewBible, and this morning I was looking at Joseph's Egyptian name in #Genesis 41:45: צָֽפְנַ֣ת פַּעְנֵחַ֒ (Zofnath-pa'neah). In #Samaritan Pentateuch the second word is often פענה and the first is צפנתי or צפינתי. (Images: Cambr. Add. 1846 f. 41b)

    Adding or subtracting a yod is very easy in Hebrew square script (modern script), but as the images show, the yod is a big letter in Samaritan (and Paleo-Hebrew).
    1/?

  9. The Woman at the Well Wasn't a Sinner!

    youtube.com/watch?v=7sIiA9e5b-

    #biblestudy #exvangelical #deconstruction #reconstruction #jesus

    For generations, the #Samaritan woman in #John4 has been misrepresented as an #adulteress — a “fallen” woman that Jesus had to shame before saving. But what if we’ve been reading it wrong?

  10. I'm always a bit weirded out by the non-profit group in the UK, the "Samaritans", when as far as I can tell, no Samaritan is involved with them, not a single one.

    Imagine that with another group, "The Kurds" or "The Jews", or "The Japanese".

    It's so weird and creepy...

    #Samaritan #Samaritans

  11. 1. The inscription is definitely in #Samaritan script, not #Paleo-Hebrew. Check out this table from Dan Barag, 'Samaritan Writing and Writings', in Cotton et al., "From Hellenism to Islam" (2009; CUP). A is early Paleo-Hebrew/Phoenician, B–C are Paleo-Hebrew from 1st and 2nd c. coins, D is Sam. 2/12

  12. Timothy Dwight was Aaron Burr’s cousin. Piety is the first virtue of being saved. But no one loves God who doesn’t love others and control their appetites.

    When the left attacks the very basis of Christianity on the basis of examples of unlovingness, does the church today too often defend the unlovingness itself as somehow not that bad, and none of our business?

    How can you live out a virtuous character?

    #christian #letloveprevail #humanityaboveall #samaritan #liberalmemes

  13. Today I learned:
    (1) Cambridge University Library has posted the oldest known Pentateuch manuscript online,
    (2) Samaritan manuscript script looks crazy but is really regular, &
    (3) with squinting at the Samaritan script Wikipedia page, I can read Samaritan!

    cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD

  14. Today I learned:
    (1) Cambridge University Library has posted the oldest known #Samaritan Pentateuch manuscript online,
    (2) Samaritan manuscript script looks crazy but is really regular, &
    (3) with squinting at the Samaritan script Wikipedia page, I can read Samaritan!

    cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD
    #HebrewBible #SamaritanPentateuch
    #manuscript_digitization

  15. Today I learned:
    (1) Cambridge University Library has posted the oldest known #Samaritan Pentateuch manuscript online,
    (2) Samaritan manuscript script looks crazy but is really regular, &
    (3) with squinting at the Samaritan script Wikipedia page, I can read Samaritan!

    cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD
    #HebrewBible #SamaritanPentateuch
    #manuscript_digitization

  16. This good #samaritan offered to drive us to our motel and even take off work the next day to help us follow up with the car in the daylight. I was NYC skeptical at the offer, but we grabbed our shoes from the smoldering car and jumped in theirs like two glowing mud aliens rescued from from a crash-landed spaceship. Our cross-cultural conversations might as well have been from that #StarTrek metaphor episode, but I did my best since they were so nice. [7/9]

  17. #movie #geolocation #Samaritan end scene. I am thinking that underpass is a wee bit short for a lot of vehicles... 33.73819841,-84.40553802

  18. Stallone's #SAMARITAN (out now on Prime Video) is a real chore to watch. Largely devoid of humour, treading on clichés every-which-way, and laughably terrible in some production choices, I didn't like this movie. #FilmReview #MovieReview #Cinemastodon #Cinema #Stallone #Film #Movie #Blog

    fernbyfilms.com/2022/12/15/mov

  19. Sylvester Stallone is a grizzled, disillusioned superhero in Samaritan trailer - Sylvester Stallone stars as an aging superhero long believed to be dead, in Samari... - arstechnica.com/?p=1869653 #streamingtelevision #sylvesterstallone #gaming&culture #entertainment #unitedartists #filmtrailers #mythoscomics #primevideo #samaritan #trailers #film