The Samaritan community\'s culture and religion is unique in the world.
The Samaritan version of the Torah differs in several ways from the Jewish Masoretic version, and tho.
The Samaritans consider only the Pentateuch to be a holy book; the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures are no more a part of the Samaritan Bible than the Christian New Testament is a part of the Jewish Bible.
The Samaritans share an origin with Jews, but the two peoples diverged thousands of years ago, already in Biblical times.
The Samaritan community\'s culture and religion is unique in the world