The Samaritans should hate Paul

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The Samaritans should hate Paul

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  • The Samaritans don't accept books after Joshua.
  • Hence, they don't accept the Books of Judges.
  • Now, the period of the Judges + king Saul precedes the anointed of YHWH, king David.
  • Paul is a midrash of Saul: just as Saul ends the period of the Judges, so Paul ends the period of the Law.
  • Hence, the Samaritans should hate Paul.
The first Gospel introduces a Jesus who is both son of Joseph and son of David. An attempt of introducing peace between Samaritans (=followers of the Messiah son of Joseph) and Jews (+ Paul: followers of the Messiah son of David) ?

The same cross, as two sticks one above the other, as symbol of alliance between two kingdoms, Judea and Samaria, Jews and Gentiles...
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The Messiah ben Joseph has to die (= Samaria was destroyed by Assyrians) so that the Messiah ben David can survive (= the kingdom of Judah survived to Assyria).
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Hence the Galilee is, not coincidentially, in the middle between North (Samaria) and South (Judah) to symbolize the new future peace between two Messiahs (= two different peoples).
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Corollary: the rumors about ebionites haters of Paul are fake news propagated by the idiotic Epiphanius, Irenaeus, etc.

Since the ebionite opposition to Paul is a midrash of Samaritan opposition to the book of Judges.

Another case where a midrash was misinterpreted as a historical fact by proto-Catholics.
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Giuseppe wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:12 am The Messiah ben Joseph has to die (= Samaria was destroyed by Assyrians) so that the Messiah ben David can survive (= the kingdom of Judah survived to Assyria).
was this argument made before, to explain the genesis of the so-called "enigmatic" tradition of the Messiah ben Joseph?
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