• yannic@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Nah, they’re mostly just an ethnic group of fellow Abrahamic Israelites who worship on a different mountain. The author often injects their own biases in scripture, and when they don’t, at the very least it’s a reflection of cultural norms for the author and/or audience.

    Here’s a picture of a Jew and a Samaritan side by side. The differences are immediately apparent.