They are the Samaritans. "Substantial genetic data indicate that Samaritans are the most 'Jewish' of Jews. They have the highest frequencies of the genes held in common across world-wide Jewish populations. "
See PubMed Identification numbers 15300852 and 25079122."
Did you ever read the Samaritan Torah? What are the differences between it and the Jewish Torah?
ReplyDeleteAnd more importantly which came first? The Samaritans were lambasted in the Jewish Tanakh as a false population but this probably propaganda.
I do no know.
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