BigT:
Another way to look at how Jews viewed Samaritans: the Israelites had, due partly to the way they were conquered*, had a lot of intermarriages with other tribes. In other words, Samaritans were often viewed as “half-breeds,” with the same contempt you would expect from someone using that term in the 20th century.
*The Assyrian king would transplant his conquered people into different locations, to try to keep them more separated, and less likely to form uprisings against him. Due to forced cohabitation, racism between the groups decreased, and a lot of “mixed marriages” were had. A quick googling revealed this page , which has more information.
I can’t access the page you provided a link for. I know it has been several years since this post, but do you remember what you typed into the search engine to come up with this particular page on mindspring?
