Samaritans
The Samaritans are a group of people who live in the Levant. Samaritans believe in the same one God of Judaism, but use only the Torah as text.[1]
There are more than 800 Samaritans.[2] Most of them live in Holon and Nablus.
Samaritans Media
Samaritans marking Passover on Mount Gerizim, West Bank - 20060418
Ancient inscription in Samaritan Hebrew. From a photo c. 1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund
Ruins of a 4th-century Samaritan synagogue likely abandoned after the Samaritan Revolts, Khirbet Samara
Mosaic from Samaritan synagogue (Israel Museum)
Samaritan worship center on Mount Gerizim. From a photo c. 1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund
Yitzhaq ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia, the High Priest of the Samaritans, Nablus, c. 1920
Interior of the Synagogue of the Samaritans in Nablus, c. 1920
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Scripture and Schism Online Exhibit at JTS". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ↑ The Samaritan Update
Archived. https://web.archive.org/web/20080512075303/http://www.jtsa.edu/prebuilt/exhib/scrips/index.shtml
https://archive.today/20130626180151/http://www.jtsa.edu/prebuilt/exhib/scrips/index.shtml
