GERIZIM

gĕrˈəzĭm, gērīˈ–, Arabic Jabal at Tur, mountain, 2,890 ft (881 m) high, in the Samaritan Hills, in the West Bank. Nablus, near the ancient Shechem, lies in the valley between Gerizim and Mt. Ebal. Gerizim is sacred to the Samaritans, whose tradition holds that Abraham's offer to sacrifice Isaac occurred there. The 300-year-old Samaritan temple at Gerizim, a replica of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, was destroyed by the Maccabean leader, John Hyrcanus, in the 2d cent. b.c. (Joshua 8.33; Judges 9.7; John 4.20,21). Excavated ruins lying below a Byzantine church on Gerizim are believed to be those of the replica, whose history is described in the writings of Flavius Josephus.

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Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period
Book by Andrew G. Vaughn, Ann E. Killebrew; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Antiquities, Jerusalem In The Bible, Jerusalem--Antiquities, Jerusalem--History
...century Samarian sanctuary attested at Mount Gerizim, while others have thought of a seventh...at Samaria44 According to Stern, the Gerizim shrine fell into disuse or was destroyed...impressive city and sacred precinct on Mount Gerizim in Hellenistic times. +6 Beneath the...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge - Vol. 10
Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson, George William Gilmore, Clarence Augustine Beckwith, Henry King Carroll, James Francis Driscoll, James Frederic McCurdy, Henry Sylvester Nash, Albert Henry Newman, Frank Horace Vizetelly; Funk and Wagnalls, 1911
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...32 , an armed assemblage gathered on Gerizim, against which Vespasian sent Cerealis...Emperor Zeno replaced their synagogue on Gerizim with a church to the Virgin, and under...celebrate their Passover festival on Gerizim, and speaks of about 900 Samaritans distributed...
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Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors
Book by Barbara Burrell; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Cities And Towns, Ancient--Turkey, Emperor Worship--Rome, Greeks--Turkey--History--To 1500
...The moun- tain above Neapolis, Mt. Gerizim, had been sacred to the Samaritans before...fellow Samaritans to build a temple atop Gerizim to rival the temple in Jerusalem. Josephus...that their nameless sanctuary on Mt. Gerizim was not the temple of the Greatest God...
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Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson
Book by Stephen G. Wilson, Michel Desjardins; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000
Subjects: Bible--N.T--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Bible--N.T--History Of Biblical Events, Bible--N.T--History Of Contemporary Events, Church History--Primitive And Early Church, Ca. 30-600, Jews In The New Testament, Judaism--History--Post-Exilic Period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
temple at Gerizim. This differs markedly from the account...linking the founding of the temple at Gerizim to the establishment of a Macedonian colony...abandoned cult site, and built the temple at Gerizim at the same time. This reconstruction...
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Origen
Book by Joseph W. Trigg; Routledge, 1998
called Gerizim as a holy place, worshipped God on it...These are to bless the people on Mount Gerizim after the crossing of the Jordan: Simeon...worshipped on this mountain, indicating Gerizim, and you say: In Jerusalem is the place...
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Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition
Journal article by Daniel Leavins; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 49, 2006
...Jerusalems Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition by Daniel Leavins Jerusalems Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition. By Ingrid Hjelm...situation. Instead, Jerusalem and Gerizim (among other sites) were competing...
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The Date of the Exodus-conquest Is Still an Open Question: a Response to Rodger Young and Bryant Wood
Journal article by Ralph K. Hawkins; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 51, 2008
...the eastern side of the mountain. Mt. Gerizim cannot even be seen from the site. This...the Ebal structure in relation to Mt. Gerizim is the possibility that the traditional location of Mt. Gerizim may be incorrect. This is not a new suggestion...
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Tradition Kept: the Literature of the Samaritans
Journal article by Gary Edward Schnittjer; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 49, 2006
...expansionistic passages concerning Mount Gerizim as Gods chosen place for his dwelling...Samaritan Pentateuch is worship at Mount Gerizim. In subsequent chapters Anderson and...Samaritan-style devotion centered at Gerizim. In the Samaritan tradition, Sanballat...
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Public Theology and Prophecy Data: Factual Evidence That Counts for the Biblical World View
Journal article by Robert C. Newman, John A. Bloom, Hugh G. Gauch Jr.; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 46, 2003
...Samaritans built their own temple on Mount Gerizim about 332 BC. The bitter hostility between...their own special neighborhoods on Mount Gerizim near Nablus, and in Holon near Tel Aviv...means of an annual sacrifice on Mount Gerizim. While many details of their history...
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A Critical Analysis of the Evidence from Ralph Hawkins for a Late-date Exodus-conquest
Journal article by Rodger C. Young, Bryant G. Wood; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 51, 2008
...the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi...Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal...in the narrow Shechem pass between Mt. Gerizim on the south and Mt. Ebal on the north...
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magazine articles on: Gerizim  - 4 results

 
 
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The Samaritans: Guardians of the Law
Magazine article by Norman A. Rubin; World and I, Vol. 26, February 2011
Subjects: Samaritans--History, Samaritans--Social aspects
...set feasts; and the Sanctity of Mount Gerizim." Most people know little about todays...their ancestral site, close to Mount Gerizim (1), and the other half in Holon...sacrifice of the Paschal lamb on Mount Gerizim is a colorful event reminiscent of old...
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"Salvation Is from the Jews"
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2001
Subjects: Christianity and other religions--Judaism, Christianity--History, Jews--Religious aspects, Salvation--History of doctrines
...apostate shrine at Shiloh instead of at Gods chosen mountain, Gerizim, as recounted in 1 Samuel 1. After the fourth-century schism...Jerusalem Judaism had definitively superseded the cult of Gerizim. Thus the exchange with the Samaritan woman at Jacobs well...
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A Separate Peace Is Given a Chance
Magazine article by Elena Neuman; Insight on the News, Vol. 9, November 22, 1993
Subjects: Israel--Relations with Palestine Liberation Organization, Middle East Peace Talks, 1991---Political aspects, Palestine Liberation Organization--Relations with Israel, Palestinian Arabs--Attitudes, West Bank--Social aspects
...red sky in the late afternoon, high above Nablus on Mount Gerizim, 300 Israelis and Palestinians sit in circles sharing picnic...any direction, however, brings one back to reality: Mount Gerizim overlooks the seemingly barren but historically rich piece...
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Another Day, Another Death-another Israeli Military Incursion into Nablus
Magazine article by Isabelle Humphries; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 26, December 2007
Subjects: Cities, Cultural centers, Murders & murder attempts, Palestinians, Religion
...Palestinian Christian minority remains, and an ancient Jewish community-the Samaritans-lives in the foothills of Mount Gerizim. There is no conflict among these three religious groups, all sharing Palestinian identity. The problem is not religious...


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newspaper articles on: Gerizim  - 4 results

 
 
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Samaritan Inhospitality
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 27, 2010
...After the death of Alexander the Great in 523 BC, the Samaritans, with the help of the Greek rulers, built on Mount Gerizim a temple to Yahweh that never attained equal status with the temple of Jerusalem. Then in 128 BC, the Jewish priest-king...
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Samaritan Inhospitality
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 28, 2004
...Jerusalem in 520 BC, they refused the Samaritans help. Eventually, the Samaritans built their alternative temple on Mount Gerizim. Thus, a bitter history accounts for the Jewish-Samaritan hostility on ethnic and religious grounds. Now Jesus is traveling...
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Samaritan Inhospitality
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 27, 2005
...the Jews of rebellion to the Persian court, delaying reconstruction. Then they built their own temple to Yahweh in Mount Gerizim as a rival of the Jerusalem temple. In 108 BC, the Samaritan temple was destroyed by the Jewish high priest and king John...
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Samaritan Inhospitality
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 30, 2008
...only in Jerusalem; that in itself was an insult to the Samaritans, who thought that God should be worshiped on their Mt. Gerizim. Meeting head-on all of this and the greater intensity of the threats to his life, Jesus nevertheless continued to firmly...


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encyclopedia articles on: Gerizim  - 5 results

 
 
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Gerizim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GERIZIM ger zim, geri , Arabic Jabal at Tur, mountain, 2,890 ft (881...Nablus , near the ancient Shechem, lies in the valley between Gerizim and Mt. Ebal. Gerizim is sacred to the Samaritans, whose tradition holds that Abrahams...
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Shechem , Town, West Bank
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHECHEM , town, West Bank she k m, town, central ancient Palestine, the modern Tell Balatan, between Mts. Gerizim and Ebal, near Nablus . Excavations in the 20th cent. indicate a village there c.3500 b.c. Shechems greatest period began...
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Samaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...only the Pentateuch and are even more scrupulous about observing its ordinances than are Orthodox Jews. They worship on Mt. Gerizim , where they had a temple in ancient times. The continual hatred between Jew and Samaritan apparently governed the choice...
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Palestine , Region, Asia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the west Mt. Carmel) fronting on the Bay of Acre. The center of Samaria is Nablus , which lies between Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerizim. The mountains of Judaea are W of the Dead Sea. In Judaea are Jerusalem , Bethlehem , and Hebron . Well to the south, in...
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Nablus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...time when the city was held by Egypt. The Samaritans (see under Samaria ) made it their capital and built a temple on nearby Gerizim to rival that of Jerusalem. Nablus still has a small community of Samaritans. The city was destroyed (129 b.c.) by John...


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