Word: samaritanism
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...Samaritans revolted against Alexander the Great and burned to death his prefect Andromachus. An avenging Macedonian army thereupon invaded Samaria, surrounded 300 Samaritan nobles hiding in a cave near Jericho, and by lighting fires at the entrance of the cave managed to asphyxiate the Samaritans...
BRITTEN: CANTATA MISERICORDIUM (London). Written for the 1963 centenary of the founding of the Red Cross, the cantata retells, in Latin, the parable of the good Samaritan. Shorter and less dramatic than Britten's widely performed War Requiem, it is nevertheless eloquent as performed by the London Symphony orchestra and chorus, conducted by Britten, with Peter Pears as the Samaritan and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as the Jewish traveler...
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Richard Cardinal Gushing, L.H.D. Samaritan to the world...
...Jesus had an ironic reason for making a "good" Samaritan the hero of his parable: his Jewish listeners could think nothing but bad of the hated Samaritans, a heretical Jewish sect that claimed descent from Joseph and viewed Judeans as apostates. Samaritans then occupied one-third of Palestine, now they consist of only about 600 poverty-stricken people living in two decaying villages in Israel and Jordan...
Encouraging Signs. Should U.S. law thus make it a crime to be a Bad Samaritan? At the very least it should compensate rescuers for injuries and lawsuits, argued Chicago Law Professor Norval Morris. Would the country then blossom with Good Samaritans? Perhaps, but as Washington Post Editorialist Alan Barth wryly recalled: "The original Good Samaritan was fortunate in not arriving on the scene until after the thieves had set upon the traveler, robbed him and beaten him half to death. The Samaritan cared for him, but he did not put himself in any peril by doing...