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Gerizim

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Gerizim , 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. BC (Joshua 8.33; Judges 9.7; John 4.20,21). Excavated ruins lying below a Byzantine church on Gerizim are believed to be those... Read more

Shechem
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 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 BC Shechem's greatest period began c.1700 ... Read more

Nablus
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... 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 BC) by John Hyrcanus ... Read more

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