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ID: 901002174
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Record Type: Event/Narrative

Good Samaritan, The (parable, Christian iconography)

Note: Christian parable about love of the stranger or an enemy, the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37) is a narrative about a Samaritan who stopped to help a Jewish traveler who had been attacked by robbers. Although Samaritans and Jews despised each other, the Samaritan helped the injured man.

Names:
Good Samaritan, The (parable, Christian iconography) (preferred,English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Christian iconography> (P)
........<Other Christian narratives> (P)
............Good Samaritan, The (parable, Christian iconography) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... parable
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
role/characteristic is .... narrative (literary works)
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Good Samaritan, The (parable, Christian iconography)
................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
................Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)
................Waal, ICONCLASS (1975)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Contributed as a candidate term H. Bertoldi, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 19 July 2019
................ Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)
................ Waal, ICONCLASS (1975) 73C861 the good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37)
................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/364148
................ Source for image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Jan_Wijnants_-_Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan.jpg

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