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Samaritans Number Less Than 1,000. Here's How Their Tradition Survives In Israel
Samaritans Number Less Than 1,000. Here's How Their Tradition Survives In Israel

(ANALYSIS) This week, Samaritans are celebrating Sukkot — one month after Jews. The ranks of the once mighty Samaritan people reached 3 million in biblical times but were reduced by persecution and apostasy to 146 by 1918. Today they number 814: Half live on a mountaintop in the West Bank, and half live along coastal plains in Israel.

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New technology helps archeologists identify Bible scribes
New technology helps archeologists identify Bible scribes

Tel Aviv University researchers used an algorithm of image processing and newly-developed machine learning techniques to establish that two scribes wrote the Samaria ostraca some 2,700 years ago.

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Middle East, NewsGil ZoharGil Zohar, Israel, Biblical Archaeology, hebrew, egypt, sebastia, Jerusalem, samaria, samaria ostraca, ostraca, Primary Feature, Christianity, Jews, Judiasm, Bible, secondary feature, secondary featuree, Secondary feature Comment