#samaritans — Public Fediverse posts
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#CurrentlyWatching " The #Samaritans: A Biblical People", a story of an ancient community faced with extinction. Your #PublicLibrary may offer free streaming. #Film #Cinema #Documentary #Religion #Culture #Palestine #YpsiLibrary https://go2films.com/films/the-samaritans-a-biblical-people/
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Grapevine: Ancient minority | The Jerusalem Post
The Samaritans are always a source of fascination, mainly because they have not succumbed to modernity in their…
#Israel #News #Chabad #grapevine #jerusalem #Judaism #lonesoldier #nablus #Samaritans
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(Posting in my personal capacity.) Please unless truly necessary don’t venture out on suburban roads yet. It took A LOT of effort & good #samaritans shoveling in freezing temperatures, to help a couple get their vehicle out of the mix of ice & #snow in northern #VA. Monitor local authorities’ advice and be safe!
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Brits only leave their desk to go to the loo and 62% don't see daylight
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-only-leave-desk-go-36576333
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Sometimes all the extra pressure at this time of year makes things feel even heavier, especially if you’re already having a tough time.
Samaritans are here if you need them. 116 123 📱
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#Samaritans
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK
#Bromsgrove
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Sometimes all the extra pressure at this time of year makes things feel even heavier, especially if you’re already having a tough time.
Samaritans are here if you need them. 116 123 📱
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#Samaritans
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK
#Bromsgrove
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Waiting to take the stage at COLCHESTER ARTS - I think this is my last solo show of 2025 - there have been many - thank you for all who have come along - today’s event is for #Samaritans #poetry #photography
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A poem about #mentalhealth #suicideawareness #poem #poetry raising money for #samaritans at #colchester @matthewcobb @helenczerski
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Girl's death may have been a cry for help as she left note in her phone
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/girls-death-been-cry-help-36283443
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Chilling parcel discovery after Brit 'flew to US to be killed by man she met online'
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Govia Thameslink #Railway has created a #Safeguarding Manager role to support passengers and staff across its #Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink networks. The post replaces and broadens the former Suicide Prevention Manager role. Rebecca Butler, who has more than 20 years’ safeguarding experience with vulnerable young people and adults, has been appointed. She previously led safeguarding teams at #Brighton & Hove City Council. At GTR she works with managers on issues such as #suicide prevention, County Lines, homelessness and violence against women and girls, alongside Network Rail, local authorities, #British #Transport Police and #charities including the #Samaritans and Railway Children. GTR says the role strengthens its commitment to safety, with the wider safeguarding work also supported by its “Your Station, Your Community Improvement Fund”.
https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/govia-thameslink-railway/pressreleases/gtr-creates-safeguarding-manager-role-to-support-colleagues-and-passengers-3415899 -
Maxon Margiela dead: US rapper dies aged 21 days after 'suicide attempt'
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Sometimes I think about the Samaritans and how few of them there are left.
I want to send money to support them and their community, but I have no idea where to even begin.
Does anyone have a resource on that? All I can find with Google are Christians using the name "Samaritan", which I find extremely disturbing.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/01/samaritans-to-push-on-with-branch-closures-despite-volunteers-objections. Why the change? It sounds like this is a process of enforced centralisation, carried out by a centre that is not listening to the #volunteers that are the lifeblood of the #organisation. The #Samaritans are desperately needed - but now they are under threat by the people at the top.
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Reach out on World Suicide Prevention Day 2025
READ: https://bvoices.uk/3I6USJG
#suicideprevention #worldsuicidepreventionday #WSPD #samaritans #mentalhealth #mind
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CALL and DOT
Two conferences in the last three weeks: my first Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (as a speaker), in Leiden as always, and a day and a half of the 35st Deutscher Orientalistentag, in Erlangen.
Both were a lot of fun. I saw many different talks at CALL, too many to summarize, and mostly too off-topic as well. I was there to ask why we think Cushitic forms a single family within Afroasiatic (see also these blog posts). Despite the purposefully provocative title of my talk, I was not assaulted by any angry mobs of Cushiticists.1 The main question seems to be whether we really should disregard the lexicon when looking at subclassification (and then the next question should be whether the lexicon does show that Cushitic is a clade). It was also really cool to see several talks by young researchers whom I taught as first-years and who have now all finished their MAs and partially started PhD projects: shout-outs to Nina van der Vlugt, Melle Groen, and Jeroen van Ravenhorst. Post your slides online, guys!
Kollegienhaus Erlangen.At the DOT, I co-chaired a panel on Semitic (in practice: mostly Hebrew) reading traditions together with Harald Samuel. While some of our presenters sadly had to cancel, we still had a great line-up, with exciting findings in every talk:
Chanan Ariel (Tel-Aviv University) proposed a highly original new explanation for the Biblical Hebrew phenomenon of dehiq, where consonants following certain unstressed vowels are geminated. According to Ariel, this is an orthoepic feature and applies to vocalic suffixes that alternate with zero, as well as some cases where the geminated consonant had to be kept apart from a following guttural. Works really well IMHO.
Aaron Hornkohl (University of Cambridge) provided a thorough discussion of the ketiv-qere phenomenon, presenting an up-to-date linguistic view of its origins and purpose in hopes of spreading more awareness of this to less linguistically inclined Hebrew Bible scholars. One thing that stood out to me is that words that are present in the consonantal text but left unpronounced in the reading tradition (ketiv wela qere) are sometimes translated in targums and other ancient versions.
Jonathan Howard (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) presented his ongoing PhD research on the “Palestinian” vocalization system of Hebrew and Aramaic and pointed out that so far, there’s really no good evidence that it’s from Palestine. He’s hoping to find some, but it might be more impactful if he doesn’t.
Johan Lundberg (University of Oxford) walked us through the increasing complexity in Syriac punctuation signs, including the development of something that is roughly equivalent to an exclamation mark! Cool fact: in at least one of the few Syriac manuscripts of the entire Bible, the scribe has simply maintained the punctuation of each source text, resulting in several different systems coexisting in the same final work.
Emmanuel Mastey (Tel-Aviv University) presented a nice statistical inquiry into h-final spellings of 2m.sg. perfect verbs in Biblical Hebrew. Besides the very frequent case of נָתַתָּה ‘you gave’, Mastey finds that this spelling is especially common with verbs that have t as their third radical and, less so, with third-weak verbs. He suggests a phonological explanation for both classes; I wonder whether with the III-t roots, it may rather be motivated by the usefulness of distinguishing e.g. שתה ‘you placed’ from שת ‘he placed’.
Isabella Maurizio (University of Lorraine according to the programme, but I think that may be outdated? Sorbonne soon from what she told me) presented her recently completed research on the Second Column of Origen’s Hexapla, the oldest fully vocalized source (in Greek script!) for Biblical Hebrew. Big shock to me: Maurizio dates the Secunda to the 2nd c. BCE-1st c. CE, not the 3rd c. CE!
Marijn van Putten (Leiden University) appeared virtually to frighten the Hebraists with the tricky history of the Qur’anic reading traditions, with examples like one where a certain reader’s Arabic is notably more archaic than that of his teacher’s teacher. Since we barely know anything about who transmitted the Hebrew reading traditions, how much of this stuff are we missing due to a lack of data?
Harald Samuel (University of Tübingen) continued the sceptical line by noting some features of Tiberian Hebrew that appear to be really late (quoting me[!] from an informal conversation in which I said that a certain change must have taken place “about two hours before Ben-Asher went to work that morning”). How do we reconcile this with the alleged presence of extremely early, First Temple period features in the reading tradition as well?
Christian Stadel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) presented on some clearly late and some unquestionably early features of the Samaritan reading tradition and talked about how it relates to the consonantal text of the Samaritan Pentateuch more generally. It reminded me a bit of a presentation I gave on a similar topic several years ago. I only have one semester of Samaritan Hebrew, though—taught by Christian Stadel!—while Stadel is a real expert on the Samaritan languages. So it was reassuring to hear him argue for similar conclusions as well as present a whole lot more interesting data.
Last of all (due to alphabetization, but it worked out alright), I got to present on the project on the construction of the Biblical Aramaic reading tradition that I’ve been doing at Leuven since 2019. I’m not sure the argument I presented is fully sound, so it was great to be able to discuss it with some colleagues afterwards.
The Semitics section continued this morning. In her section keynote, Na’ama Pat-El (University of Texas Austin) presented her SemitiLEX project (recorded talk by another project member, haven’t watched it yet), looking at cognate Semitic lexemes not just in terms of roots, but also looking at morpho-lexical features like gender and pluralization. Unexpected result: building phylogenetic trees based on these data shows Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic clustering as four or five separate branches, instead of Northwest Semitic clustering together and then being closer to Arabic than to Akkadian.
Maria Rauscher (Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny) presented her ongoing work on a dictionary of Arabic verbal nouns, focusing on the difficult case of k-r-h ‘to dislike’. As we had some extra discussion time for both Pat-El’s and Rauscher’s talks, there was time enough for the audience to draw up battle lines and get into the details of linguistic theory (such as: are morphemes even a thing?).
Stefanie Rudolf (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) presented on two Qur’anic phrases that she suggests are unrecognized borrowings from Ethiosemitic. “The Lord of the East and the West” is attested in an Ethiopian Early Sabaic inscription, while Rudolf proposes the Arabic root f-t-w ‘to judge’ may be borrowed from Ethiosemitic f-t-ḥ. While she acknowledges the phonological difficulty of the last case, maybe we should reckon with the possibility of an unknown (South?) Ethiosemitic language that lost the pharyngeals acting as an intermediary: in the beginning of her talk, she pointed out that early Islamic sources refer to an Abyssinian with a name that is not Ge’ez but pre-Amharic (I think Ababut?), which I found very cool.
Jan Retsö (University of Gothenburg) pulled off the trick of reading out a text with no slides or handout while being perfectly easy to follow and entertaining. After an overview of the scholarship on Semitic–Ancient Egyptian cognates and loanwords, Retsö responded to Alexander Borg’s recent claim that there are lots of specifically Arabic loanwords in Egyptian. Retsö thinks there’s something there but urges for methodological precision.
Mohammad I. Ababneh (University of Halle) presented on some difficulties in Safaitic paleography, including merged letters and ligatures and other weird letter shapes. Nice to see some discussion of former Leiden colleague Chiara Della Puppa’s dissertation!
Finally, Vera Tsukanova (Philipps-Universität Marburg) took a look at the phonological adaptation of Persian loanwords into Arabic from a Semiticist and diachronic perspective. Historical differences in aspiration go a long way in accounting for prima facie unexpected sounds in borrowings.
And now, the conference is kind of on hold for various business meetings, which I took as my cue to leave. In conclusion, I would like to note that I am posting this from a high-speed train, which feels very futuristic. While some discussions in the field stay the same for what seems like forever—Paul Kahle’s lecture at the first DOT in 1922 was referenced multiple times—I take this as a sign that like Deutsche Bahn passengers, no matter the inevitable delays, detours, and frustrations, overall, we are getting somewhere.
- Only by a toddler, possibly for unrelated reasons. ↩︎
#Akkadian #Amharic #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Bible #Cushitic #EastCushitic #Egyptian #Hebrew #linguistics #Samaritans #Syriac #Ugaritic
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𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗢𝗶𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
Archaeologists have uncovered stunning 1,600-year-old Samaritan estate in Israel featuring intricate mosaics and unique ritual baths, revealing the prosperity of this ancient religious community during Byzantine times.
#samaritans #ancienthistory #ancientorigins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/samaritan-estate-mosaics-0022411 -
Cut backs, cut backs, cut backs.....it's all the UK can manage.... 🙁
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/25/samaritans-close-branches-uk-ireland
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Do more with less. The mantra of our age. #UK #news #Samaritans
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News that the Samaritans in England are considering huge changes doesn't surprise me because it's symptomatic of big national charities failing to listen to their volunteers.
The often highly paid top table of this type of organisation seem increasingly unable to differentiate between a charitable organisation and a For-profit business.
It's very sad.
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More #Genocide by #Israel in #Gaza.
Seeing some reaching for legitimacy of the fascist project of "Israel from the river to the sea" by claiming a god gave the land to them.Whereas it was actually the #Samaritans that that god gave that land.
I don't know, the whole idea of a god giving land, with other peoples already living on it, to one group looks like a recipe for hatred, misery and oppression.
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Hi all! My bestie , is running a 24 HOUR #gayming #stream to help raise funds for #Samaritans (A charity doing #suicideprevention in #Ireland)!
If you can, toss some moneys that way, and if not, come by to say hi to him, so he knows he has support 🥰
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8TFDvVKR4k
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‘I was drinking four bottles of wine a day until moment police were called’
Amy Deards relied on booze for comfort and confidence after her fiancé of six years told her on New Year’s Eve that he no longer loved her. Her addiction spiralled into her passing out …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #alcohol #ChristmasParty #Drink-driving #love #marriage #newyear #Samaritans #therapy
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2139867/i-was-drinking-four-bottles-of-wine-a-day-until-moment-police-were-called/ -
‘I was drinking four bottles of wine a day until moment police were called’ https://www.diningandcooking.com/2139867/i-was-drinking-four-bottles-of-wine-a-day-until-moment-police-were-called/ #alcohol #ChristmasParty #DrinkDriving #love #marriage #NewYear #Samaritans #therapy #Wine
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Never underestimate the power of people who are motivated by the good they can do in the world.
Today I was in awe of this team of unpaid volunteers who, having already given up their bank holiday weekend, worked through dinner and into the night to ensure the continued uptime of a piece software that enables the listening service of emotional support and suicide helplines.
#note #volunteering #nightline #samaritans #threeRings #counselling #suicide
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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...
