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| In biblical times, people could become impure “by having contact with a corpse, certain dead animals, the involuntary flow of fluids from sexual organs, and disease such as tsara’at, or the eating of prohibited foods” (Achtemeier). When the Samaritan touched the man who was wounded and nearly dead, he himself became unclean. To help your students understand the relationship between the two groups of people, compare Iraqi soldiers and American soldiers. If an American soldier was dying on the side of the road and an Iraqi soldier stopped to make sure he was okay, it would be the same concept as Jews and Samaritans in those days. WORKS CITED: Achtemeier, Paul J. “Purity.” The Harper Collins Bible Dictionary. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1996. Holy Bible: New International Version. Colorado Springs: International Bible Society, 1993. The Interpreter’s Bible, Luke and John, Abingdon, Nashville, Tennessee, 1952 |
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