The Samaritan Woman Reconsidered - Paperback

by Pinchas Shir (Editor), Ludmila Lizorkina (Contribution by), Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg (Author)

The Samaritan Woman is generally portrayed in our Bible studies as a woman of ill-repute. While avoiding people because of her deep shame over her immoral life, she seemingly stumbled upon Jesus resting at a well. However, most people reading this story are left with a nagging question. How could this woman receive an overwhelmingly positive response from her village neighbors, when she called them to drop everything and come with her to meet a Jewish man, she herself had just met? Something does not add up.