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    support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Mount Gerizim (/ˈɡɛrɪˌzɪm/; Samaritan Hebrew: ࠄࠟࠓࠬࠂࠟࠓࠩࠆࠝࠉࠌ‎ ʾĀ̊rgā̊rīzem; Hebrew: הַר גְּרִזִים‎...
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    The Mount Gerizim Temple was an ancient Samaritan center of worship located on Mount Gerizim, the holiest site in Samaritanism. It was built in the 5th...
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    Samaritan belief also holds that the Israelites' original holy site was Mount Gerizim, near Nablus, and that Jerusalem only attained importance under Israelite...
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    site, which the Jews believe is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and which Samaritans believe is Mount Gerizim near modern Nablus and ancient Shechem. Both...
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    935 m (3,068 ft) above sea level, some 60 m (200 ft) higher than Mount Gerizim. Mount Ebal is approximately 17 km2 (6.6 sq mi) in area, and is composed...
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    such as the uniquely Samaritan commandment to construct an altar on Mount Gerizim. Nearly two thousand of these textual variations agree with the Koine...
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    of Jerusalem, with a population of 156,906. Located between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a commercial...
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    below Mount Gerizim (Judges 9:6–7). These indications are substantiated by Josephus, who says that the city lay between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, and...
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    challenging what they regard as the original Israelite sacred site, Mount Gerizim. Eli was a priest (kohen) of Shiloh, the second-to-last Israelite judge...
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    count as ten. The Samaritan tenth commandment is on the sanctity of Mount Gerizim. The text of the Samaritan tenth commandment follows: And it shall come...
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    office because he violently suppressed an armed Samaritan movement at Mount Gerizim. He was sent back to Rome by the legate of Syria to answer for this...
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  • Mount Gerizim, over which his own descendants, born into priestly blood, could minister. Josephus describes his construction of the Temple on Gerizim...
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    Moriah (category Mount Gerizim)
    believed by the Samaritans that the near-sacrifice actually took place on Mount Gerizim, near Nablus in the West Bank. Many Muslims, in turn, believe the place...
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    Nablus area: Mount Gerizim, the religious epicenter of Samaritanism, site of an ancient Samaritan temple, and Samaritan and Byzantine ruins Mount Ebal site...
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    those Israelites that remained in Samaria, concentrated mainly around Mount Gerizim, came to be known as Samaritans. Foreign groups were also settled by...
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    before the Ark. When Joshua read the Law to the people between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, they stood on each side of the Ark. The Ark was then kept...
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    and converted the synagogue to a church. Zeno then took for himself Mount Gerizim, where the Samaritans worshipped God, and built several edifices, among...
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    Kiryat Luza (category Mount Gerizim)
    Luza (Arabic: قرية لوزة, Hebrew: קרית לוזה) is a village situated on Mount Gerizim near the city of Nablus in the West Bank. It is within Area B of the...
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    representation of Mount Gerizim is a clear indication of Samaritan identity. On the other hand, although the existence of a Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim is both...
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  • tradition Mount Sinai, by the Bedouin, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt Mount Tabor, Lower Galilee, Israel Temple Mount, Jerusalem Mount Gerizim, West...
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    referred to as the third holiest city in Islam... Anderson, Robert T., "Mount Gerizim: Navel of the World", Biblical Archaeologist Vol. 43, No. 4 (Autumn...
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    north towards Shechem and Mount Gerizim. The city of Shechem was reduced to a village and the Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim was destroyed. This military...
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  • main difference is the position of Mount Gerizim in their belief system. In their views not Jerusalem, but Mount Gerizim is regarded as the utmost sacred...
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    is "Mount Tabur" (جبل طابور, Jebel Ṭābūr) or "Mount Tur" (جبل الطور, Jebel eṭ-Ṭūr). The name Jabal aṭ-Ṭūr is shared with Sinai and Mount Gerizim.[citation...
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    stand on Mount Gerizim when the blessings were spoken, and the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphthali were to stand on Mount Ebal when...
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    and rebuilt the synagogue into a church. Zeno then took for himself Mount Gerizim, where the Samaritans worshipped God, and built several edifices, among...
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    Jews and their temple in Jerusalem and Samaritans and their temple on Mount Gerizim). Jesus' disciples James and his brother John wanted to call down fire...
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  • Samaritans than Judeans living in Palestine. They had their own temple on Mount Gerizim near Shechem and regarded themselves as the true Israel, who remained...
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    appropriate place to worship, Jerusalem (as it was for the Jews) or Mount Gerizim (as it was for the Samaritans), to which Jesus replies: Woman, believe...
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    Legio V Macedonica (category Mount Gerizim)
    peacefully to the Roman army, and later the V Macedonica conquered Mount Gerizim, the chief sanctuary of the Samaritans. In the Year of the Four Emperors...
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