 They do not recognize divine authorship or inspiration in any other book in the Jewish Tanakh.A Samaritan Book of Joshua partly based upon the Tanakh's Book of Joshua exists, but Samaritans regard it as a non-canonical secular historical chronicle.According to a view based on the biblical Book of Ezra (), the Samaritans are the people of Samaria who parted ways with the people of Judah (the Judahites) in the Persian period.