WI: Successful Samaritan revolt against the Byzantines?

After Judea was depopulated of Jews following the Jewish-Roman Wars, the vaccuum for the following few centuries was filled by Christians and Samaritans. Apparently, the Samaritans executed a number of revolts against the Eastern Roman Empire between the late 5th and late 6th centuries. One of their more well-known leaders was Julian Ben Sabar, who operated between the years 529 and 531 AD. After these revolts were supressed, Syria's Samaritan population declined, and, nowadays, only less than a thousand people identify as Samaritan.
So, my question is... what if the Samaritans had succeeded in estabilishing an independent kingdom at the (traditionally periodized) dawn of the Middle Ages?
The Samaritans would need outside support to repel following attempts by Byzantium to reconquer Palestine. Perhaps they could be supported by Sassanid Persia?
With land connections to Egypt severed by the Samaritans, could the Miaphysites of Egypt end up rebelling soon?
 
Bump.
Does an independent Samaritan state affect the Jewish Diaspora by any margin? How historically hostile have the Samaritans been to the Jews?
 
Any Samaritan victory means a Byzantium weak enough that Persia moves westward - it would likely gain some influence over the new state and be its protector or even indirect master.

Such a great accomplishment would raise the status of the leader to Messianic status and likely ease tensions, especially as Jews and Samaritans fought together against the Christians, who will be killed and/or run away; I think in time a new dualist Samaritan/Jewish orthodoxy would emerge.

A major Miaphysite revolt may occur, indeed.
 

Philip

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The Samaritans would need outside support to repel following attempts by Byzantium to reconquer Palestine. Perhaps they could be supported by Sassanid Persia?

This would be during the Sasanians' second golden era. If they get involved, it will be to conquer, not support a small upstart.

With land connections to Egypt severed by the Samaritans, could the Miaphysites of Egypt end up rebelling soon?

The sea lanes are open and may be the more important.

As for the miaphysites, timing is critical. If, for example, the Samaritan revolt takes place under Anastasius, then the miaphysites are relatively content and not likely to rebel.
 
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