Test Kitchen: Good Samaritan Hummus

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The Samaritans are likely best known in the Western world for one person—the famous “Good Samaritan” of Jesus’s parable found in Luke 10:25-37. This character comes from a rich culture—still thriving today—that traces its descent back to the northern Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, as well as to the tribe of Levi.

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Footnotes

1. See Lawrence H. Schiffman, “The Samaritan Schism: Schisms in Jewish History: Part 2,” Bible History Daily (blog), biblicalarchaeology.org/samaritan-schism.

Endnotes

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Benyamim Tsedaka, Samaritan Cookbook: A Culinary Odyssey from the Ancient Israelites to the Modern Mediterranean, Ben Piven and Avishay Zelmanovich, eds. (Eugene: Wipf Stock, 2020), p. 123. Recipes from Batia bat Yefet Tsedaka and Zippora Sassoni Tsedaka.