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Samaritanism
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 | Samaritans marking Passover on Mount Gerizim, West Bank - 20060418.jpg
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Ancient inscription in Samaritan Hebrew. From a photo c.1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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Samaritan worship centre on Mount Gerizim. From a photo c.1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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Yitzhaq ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia, the High Priest of the Samaritans, Nablus, c. 1920.
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Interior of the Synagogue of the Samaritans in Nablus, c. 1920.
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Samaritan and the Samaritan Torah
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— John D. Whiting The National Geographic Magazine, Jan 1920 |
During the entire week following the Feast of the Passover, the Samaritans remain encamped on Mount Gerizim. On the last day of the encampment they begin at dawn a pilgrimage to the crest of the sacred mount. Before setting forth on this pilgrimage, however, the men spread their cloths and repeat the creed and the story of the Creation in silence, after which, in loud voice they read the Book of Genesis and the first quarter of the Book of Exodus, ending with the story of the Passover and the flight from Egypt
— John D. Whiting The National Geographic Magazine, Jan 1920 |
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Samaritans, from a photo c. 1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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Samaritans pray before the Holy Rock on Mount Gerizim
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The Samaritan Mezuzah engraved above the front door
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Entrance to a modern Samaritan synagogue in the city of Holon, Israel
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