Word: gerizim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Samaritans retaliated by rejecting the Jews. They proclaimed themselves the true remnant of Israel. The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem was not the true temple; the correct site, they said, was on Mount Gerizim, where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice. There the Samaritans set up their own temple and held that there had been no prophet since Moses and no law save that in the Pentateuch...
...spiritual at all. They were clues to buried treasure-and on a Fort Knox scale. Two hundred tons of gold and silver-were mentioned as well as a considerable cache of incense in about 60 separate hoards scattered over a 50-mile-long area from Hebron to Mount Gerizim, near Nablus...
...Pentecost of the year 383 A.D., Samaritans at Mount Gerizim massacred Christians. Other Christians were angry and destroyed the Samaritan temple. A church was built on its ruins. Later the church fell to pieces and was buried under debris. This autumn the German Archaeological Institute uncovered the site...