These changing relationships between Jew and Samaritan naturally brought corresponding changes in religious legislation as applied to Samaritans. Thus it is very difficult to discover from our sources, which for the most part were written much later, what ruling was in force during the first century AD. However we are not without some assistance. In addition to the evidence in the New Testament and Josephus, there are especially the words of R. Eliezer (c. AD 90) to help us clarify matters; for on