Samaritan

Samaritans were descendants of Israelites who intermarried with Assyrian settlers after the northern kingdom fell in 722 BC. Jews considered them half-breeds and heretics. They had their own temple on Mount Gerizim and their own version of the Torah. Jesus broke social norms by talking to a Samaritan woman (John 4), and His parable of the Good Samaritan was deliberately shocking — making the despised outsider the hero.