Palestine’s Samaritans make pilgrimage to Mt. Gerizim Mountain is revered by small sect of 'Beni Israel', who believe it was the site of King Solomon’s Temple 04.10.2017 - Update : 04.10.2017 ...

Pummer has to admit, however, that the destruction of the Samaritans' temple in 111/110 B.C. by John Hyrcanus, a Jewish Hasmonean ruler, brought relations to a new and lasting low.

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. Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans ...

Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today ... As he lay in a ditch, a temple priest and a temple functionary both noticed him but hurried past.