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Religion for Breakfast is a Youtube channel full of scholarly overviews of religions and religious topics, researched and presented by a religious studies professor. Andrew Henry is a scholar of religion who focuses on early Christianity. Recently, he posted a documentary about the identity and origins of the Samaritans:
I knew a little about Samaritans from reading about them in Christian sources and hearing about them at church, but Henry goes into alot more detail. It sounds like Samaritans were a sect from northern Israel and were part of a plurality of Canaanite monotheistic theologies, and not some kind of corrupted religion, and that these groups disagreed about what mountain to worship God on (likely for political reasons).
I knew a little about Samaritans from reading about them in Christian sources and hearing about them at church, but Henry goes into alot more detail. It sounds like Samaritans were a sect from northern Israel and were part of a plurality of Canaanite monotheistic theologies, and not some kind of corrupted religion, and that these groups disagreed about what mountain to worship God on (likely for political reasons).
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