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The Mount Gerizim Temple was an ancient Samaritan center of worship located on Mount Gerizim originally constructed in the mid-5th century BCE, reconstructed in the early 2nd century BCE, and destroyed later in that same century. [1]
Passover is still celebrated by the Samaritans with a lamb sacrifice on Mount Gerizim. [8] The Samaritan village of Kiryat Luza and an Israeli settlement, Har Brakha, are situated on the ridge of Mount Gerizim. [9] [10] During the First Intifada in 1987, many Samaritan families relocated from Nablus to Mount Gerizim to avoid the violence. [11]
The Samaritan Passover is celebrated every spring with a pilgrimage to and sheep sacrifice atop Mount Gerizim, [1] [2] the holiest site in the Samaritan religion. This ritual is a direct observance of the commandments found in Exodus 12 , and it involves the slaughtering of sheep, dabbing the animals' blood on the participants' foreheads, and ...
Samaritan belief also holds that the Israelites' original holy site was Mount Gerizim, near Nablus, [3] and that Jerusalem only attained importance under Israelite dissenters who had followed Eli to the city of Shiloh; the Israelites who remained at Mount Gerizim would become the Samaritans in the Kingdom of Israel, whereas the Israelites who ...
Samaritan worship center on Mount Gerizim. From a photo c. 1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund. According to the Ottoman censuses of 1525–1526, 25 Samaritan families lived in Gaza, and 29 families lived in Nablus. In 1548–1549, there were 18 families in Gaza and 34 in Nablus. [100]
The most notable substantial differences between both texts are those related to Mount Gerizim, the Samaritans' place of worship. The Samaritan version of the Ten Commandments includes the command that an altar be built on Mount Gerizim on which all sacrifices should be offered.
For the Samaritan people, most of whom live around it, Mount Gerizim is considered the holiest place on Earth. The mountain is mentioned in the Bible as the place where, upon first entering the Promised Land after the Exodus , the Israelites performed ceremonies of blessings, as they had been instructed by Moses .
In its place, according to Sotheby’s, is an order “to worship on Mount Gerizim, a holy site specific to the Samaritans.” ...