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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Samaritan center of worship is on Mount Gerizim in the present-day West Bank, instead of Jerusalem, where the Jewish temple stood. The faith has its own priesthood, religious calendar and ...