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To: bentway who wrote (651503)	4/15/2012 3:42:13 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1580538

Boy, does that story twist history. the Bible once described Moses as telling his people to travel to Mount Gerizim—where the Samaritan shrine once stood. Wrong. Since the Jerusalem temple was built prior to the one in Samaria, it's obvious the Samaritan's changed their version of the Torah after they built their own temple. Invaded by Assyrians in 732 BC, Israel grew more powerful, eventually empowering Jews to destroy the Samaritan shrine and depict them as villains in a revised Old Testament, experts say. Actually, the Assyrian invasion destroyed the kingdom of Israel and created the Samaritan people by transplanting in settlers to rule the area under Assyrian overlordship. The Samaritans then sought to learn about the gods of the kingdom and established a new priesthood, revised Torah, and new temple. The Samaritan temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD because the Samaritans joined the Jewish rebellion against Rome. Samaritans also hurt their own cause by banning mixed marriages and settlements "outside the promised land." Samaritans actually emigrated throughout the Persian and Greco-Roman empires like Jews did and even had some synagogues outside Samaria. There just weren't as many. But they once had the upper hand with over a million followers in ancient Judea. Wrong, in ancient Samaria.