I came across your respected article today while reading "The Good Samaritan: A Type and Shadow of the Plan of Salvation" (https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3277&co…). Which might interest you to read. Your research and insights give me a great deal to think about as I consider that in the article above the author believes that Jesus Christ presented himself as a Samaritan in the parable of the Good Samaritan. And If we consider this for a moment in light of what you have written 1) Jesus has a lack of “communal solidarity” with the Judeans; 2) Jesus identifies was not a full Jew because of His mixed race, being the Son of God, born of Mary. The above article also gives scriptural corroboration for this identification of Jesus with the Samaritans in the Gospel of John when some Jews in Jerusalem rejected Jesus with the insult "Say we not well that thou art a
Samaritan and hast a devil? John 8:48. Perhaps because Nazareth is right across the valley to the north of Samaria and because Jewish people generally thought as little of Nazareth as they did of Samaria (John 1:46) the two locations could easily be lumped geographically and culturally together.
With the samaritan comes from the Gospel of John when some Jews in Jerusalem rejected Jesus with the insult "Say we not well that thou art a
Samaritan and hast a devil? John 8:48 Perhaps because Nazareth is right across the valley to the north of Samaria and because Jewish people generally thought as little of Nazareth as they did of Samaria (John 1:46) the two locations could easily be lumped geographically and culturally together.
I came across your respected article today while reading "The Good Samaritan: A Type and Shadow of the Plan of Salvation" (https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3277&co…). Which might interest you to read. Your research and insights give me a great deal to think about as I consider that in the article above the author believes that Jesus Christ presented himself as a Samaritan in the parable of the Good Samaritan. And If we consider this for a moment in light of what you have written 1) Jesus has a lack of “communal solidarity” with the Judeans; 2) Jesus identifies was not a full Jew because of His mixed race, being the Son of God, born of Mary. The above article also gives scriptural corroboration for this identification of Jesus with the Samaritans in the Gospel of John when some Jews in Jerusalem rejected Jesus with the insult "Say we not well that thou art a
Samaritan and hast a devil? John 8:48. Perhaps because Nazareth is right across the valley to the north of Samaria and because Jewish people generally thought as little of Nazareth as they did of Samaria (John 1:46) the two locations could easily be lumped geographically and culturally together.
With the samaritan comes from the Gospel of John when some Jews in Jerusalem rejected Jesus with the insult "Say we not well that thou art a
Samaritan and hast a devil? John 8:48 Perhaps because Nazareth is right across the valley to the north of Samaria and because Jewish people generally thought as little of Nazareth as they did of Samaria (John 1:46) the two locations could easily be lumped geographically and culturally together.