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Last week Miller became the first American ever to be compensated by a Good Samaritan statute-a pioneering law enacted by California last summer to indemnify citizens who suffer injuries or damages while trying to prevent crimes or capture criminals. California Controller Alan Cranston mailed Miller a check for $269.60. "No one expects the new law to change human nature," said Cranston, a leader in getting the law passed. "But I believe it is a big step in helping to create an atmosphere all too lacking in our modern society...
...Good Samaritans may be forced to pass TIME by for locating Jordan's Mount Gerizim, the sacred mountain of the Samaritan community, in Israel [April 1]. The high priest of the Samaritans, who lives with the majority of his people (all told, fewer than 400) in nearby Nablus, Jordan, may, however, be willing to forgive all, if TIME could show him where the Samaritan temple is. John Hyrcanus was supposed to have destroyed it circa 128 B.C., and there is no clear record of subsequent reconstruction. TIME may also have put Dead Sea Scrolls Dealer Kando at odds with...
...centuries the bodies lay in the innermost recesses of the cave, buried beneath a growing cover of bat dung until some Arabs, poking around in the desert in the hope of finding some salable antiquities, stumbled on the Samaritan skeletons in 1962. Digging in the dung, they unearthed jewelry, pottery and papyrus, property deeds and marriage contracts that the Samaritans had carried with them to their deaths...
...brought some of these finds to Kando, the former Bethlehem cobbler who made himself an antiquities dealer by selling the famed Dead Sea Scrolls. Kando in turn alerted American archaeologists working in Israel, and Harvard's Frank M. Cross Jr. went to Israel to acquire and study the Samaritan finds. Now Archaeologist Cross knows more about ancient Samaritan history than does the remnant of the tribe that still survives...
Contrary to II Kings, which charges that the Samaritans abandoned the Jewish faith about 700 B.C. under Assyrian influence, the documents in the Jericho cave show that they were practicing Jews at the time of Alexander. Thus the "Samaritan schism" from the Jews has to be dated much later, probably during the 1st century before Christ, says Cross. The marriage contracts prove that the Samaritans frequently married Greeks and were Hellenized even before Alexander conquered them. A number of the nobles wore rings and seals with "lovely naked figures of Greek goddesses" as well as traditional symbols of Jewish religion...