Re: OT: Jewish Tribes
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 18, 2000, 13:43 |
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 06:38:10 +0100 Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
writes:
> I agree. I'd guess that (1) was the lot of most. But didn't some
> drift
> back to the Holy Land, giving rise, in part at least, to the
> Samaritans who
> claimed, I believe, to preserve more ancient traditions that the
> Jews
> returning from exile in Babylon?
>
> Ray.
>
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The Samaritans' Judaic component came about from the remnants of the
Northern Kingdom. Whoever was left around and didn't get exiled merged
with the foreigners from other places who got exiled *to* Israel.
-Stephen (Steg)
"mai hhazit?"