Preface: Rhetorical serendipity -- Introduction to Digital Samaritans -- Between the raindrops and two fires: a brief history of the Samaritans and their diaspora of manuscripts -- From parchment to bytes: digital delivery as a rhetorical strategy -- Leveraging textual diaspora: rhetoric and the digital humanities as engaged scholarship -- The Good Samaritan: at the crossroads of rhetoric and the digital humanities -- Appendix A: Transcripts -- Appendix B: Images of Seven Principles document -- Appendix C: Benyamim Tsedaka's call for the repatriation of artifacts.