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interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Garizim" title="Mont Garizim – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mont Garizim" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabal_a%C5%A3_%C5%A2%C5%ABr_(bukid_sa_Kayutaang_Palestinhon)" title="Jabal aţ Ţūr (bukid sa Kayutaang Palestinhon) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Jabal aţ Ţūr (bukid sa Kayutaang Palestinhon)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerizim" title="Gerizim – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Gerizim" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garizim" title="Garizim – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Garizim" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B6%CE%AF%CE%BD" title="Γαριζίν – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γαριζίν" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Gueriz%C3%ADn" title="Monte Guerizín – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Monte Guerizín" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garizim" title="Garizim – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Garizim" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerizim_mendia" title="Gerizim mendia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gerizim mendia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%87_%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%85" title="کوه گریزیم – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کوه گریزیم" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Gerizim" title="Mont Gerizim – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mont Gerizim" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B2%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%A7%90%EC%82%B0" title="게리짐산 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="게리짐산" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B3%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A6%D5%AB%D5%B4" title="Գրիզիմ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Գրիզիմ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Gerizim" title="Gunung Gerizim – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Gunung Gerizim" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garizim" title="Garizim – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Garizim" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D" title="הר גריזים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הר גריזים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gerizim" title="Mount Gerizim – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Mount Gerizim" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons_Garizim" title="Mons Garizim – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Mons Garizim" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garizim" title="Garizim – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Garizim" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendrombohitra_Garizima" title="Tendrombohitra Garizima – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Tendrombohitra Garizima" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%85" title="جبل جرزيم – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جبل جرزيم" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerizim" title="Gerizim – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Gerizim" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E5%B1%B1" title="ゲリジム山 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ゲリジム山" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerisim" title="Gerisim – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Gerisim" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerisim" title="Gerisim – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Gerisim" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" 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Ebal.</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;">Highest point</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Mount_Gerizim&params=32_12_3.1_N_35_16_23.73_E_region:PS_type:mountain_source:dewiki_scale:100000"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Gerizim_sign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="417" /></a><figcaption>Trilingual road signs directing toward Mount Gerizim and <a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Luza" title="Kiryat Luza">Kiryat Luza</a> (<i>Shomronim</i> – Samaritans in Hebrew)</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Mount Gerizim</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɡ/: 'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">GHERR</span>-iz-im</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Samaritan_Hebrew_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Samaritan Hebrew language">Samaritan Hebrew</a>: <span lang="smp-Samr" dir="rtl">ࠄࠟࠓࠬࠂࠟࠓࠩࠆࠝࠉࠌ</span>, <small>romanized: </small><span title="Samaritan Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="smp-Latn">ʾĀ̊rgā̊rīzem</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">הַר גְּרִזִים</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Har Gərīzīm</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">جَبَل جَرِزِيم</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">Jabal Jarizīm</i></span>, or <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">جَبَلُ ٱلطُّورِ</span></span>, <span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">Jabal at-Ṭūr</i></span>) is one of two mountains in the immediate vicinity of the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestinian</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Nablus" title="Nablus">Nablus</a> and the biblical city of <a href="/wiki/Shechem" title="Shechem">Shechem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It forms the southern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the northern side being formed by <a href="/wiki/Mount_Ebal" title="Mount Ebal">Mount Ebal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-brit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mountain is one of the highest peaks in the <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> and rises to 881 m (2,890 ft) above sea level, 70 m (230 ft) lower than Mount Ebal.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mountain is particularly steep on the northern side, is sparsely covered at the top with shrubbery, and lower down there is a <a href="/wiki/Spring_(hydrology)" title="Spring (hydrology)">spring</a> with a high yield of fresh water.<sup id="cite_ref-JewishEncyclopedia_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishEncyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the <a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritan</a> people, most of whom live around it, Mount Gerizim is considered the holiest place on Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-Centre_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Centre-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The mountain is mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> as the place where, upon first entering the <a href="/wiki/Promised_Land" title="Promised Land">Promised Land</a> after <a href="/wiki/The_Exodus" title="The Exodus">the Exodus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Israelites" title="Israelites">Israelites</a> performed ceremonies of blessings, as they had been instructed by <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mount Gerizim is sacred to the <a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritans</a>, who regard it, rather than <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Temple_Mount" title="Temple Mount">Temple Mount</a>, as the location chosen by <a href="/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh">God</a> for a holy temple. In <a href="/wiki/Samaritanism" title="Samaritanism">Samaritan tradition</a>, it is the oldest and most central mountain in the world, towering above the <a href="/wiki/Flood_myth" title="Flood myth">Great Flood</a> and providing the first land for <a href="/wiki/Noah" title="Noah">Noah</a>’s disembarkation.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the location where <a href="/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac" title="Binding of Isaac">Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Centre_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Centre-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Mount_Gerizim_Temple" title="Mount Gerizim Temple">Samaritan Temple</a> was located on Mount Gerizim from the 5th century BCE to the 2nd century BCE. Jews, on the other hand, consider the location of the near-sacrifice to be Mount <a href="/wiki/Moriah" title="Moriah">Moriah</a>, traditionally identified by them with the Temple Mount. Mount Gerizim continues to be the centre of Samaritan religion to this day, and Samaritans ascend it <a href="/wiki/Three_Pilgrimage_Festivals" title="Three Pilgrimage Festivals">three times a year</a>: at <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shavuot" title="Shavuot">Shavuot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sukkot" title="Sukkot">Sukkot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Passover is still celebrated by the Samaritans with a <a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice" title="Animal sacrifice">lamb sacrifice</a> on Mount Gerizim.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Samaritan village of <a href="/wiki/Kiryat_Luza" title="Kiryat Luza">Kiryat Luza</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlement" title="Israeli settlement">Israeli settlement</a>, <a href="/wiki/Har_Brakha" title="Har Brakha">Har Brakha</a>, are situated on the ridge of Mount Gerizim.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/First_Intifada" title="First Intifada">First Intifada</a> in 1987, many Samaritan families relocated from Nablus to Mount Gerizim to avoid the violence.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Today, about half of the remaining Samaritans live in close proximity to Gerizim, mostly in the village of Kiryat Luza. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biblical_account">Biblical account</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mount_Gerizim&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biblical account"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nablus_panorama-cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Nablus_panorama-cropped.jpg/220px-Nablus_panorama-cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Nablus_panorama-cropped.jpg/330px-Nablus_panorama-cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Nablus_panorama-cropped.jpg/440px-Nablus_panorama-cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1268" data-file-height="834" /></a><figcaption>Old City of <a href="/wiki/Nablus" title="Nablus">Nablus</a> and Mount Gerizim in background</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a>, as related in <a href="/wiki/Deuteronomy" class="mw-redirect" title="Deuteronomy">Deuteronomy</a>, when they first entered <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a> the <a href="/wiki/Israelites" title="Israelites">Israelites</a> celebrated the event with ceremonies of blessings and cursings: the ceremonies of blessings took place on Mount Gerizim, and the cursings on nearby <a href="/wiki/Mount_Ebal" title="Mount Ebal">Mount Ebal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Magen_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Magen-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Pulpit_Commentary" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit Commentary</a></i> suggests that these mountains were selected probably "because they stand in the center of the Land both from north to south, and from east to west". A commentary in the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Bible_for_Schools_and_Colleges" title="Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a> argues that "the face of Gerizim, the mount of blessing, is the more fertile; the opposite face of Ebal, the mount of curse, much the more bare",<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the <i>Pulpit Commentary</i> states that both Gerizim and Ebal are "equally barren-looking, though neither is wholly destitute of culture and vegetation".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Masoretic_Text" title="Masoretic Text">Masoretic Text</a> says that Moses had also commanded the Israelites to build an altar on Mount Ebal, constructed from natural (rather than cut) stones, to place stones there and whiten them with <a href="/wiki/Calcium_oxide" title="Calcium oxide">lime</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-JewishEncyclopedia_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishEncyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to make <a href="/wiki/Korban" title="Korban">sacrificial offerings on the altar</a>, eat there, and write the <a href="/wiki/Law_of_Moses" title="Law of Moses">Mosaic Law</a> in stones there.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Samaritan_Pentateuch" title="Samaritan Pentateuch">Samaritan Pentateuch</a>, as well as an ancient manuscript of the biblical text found in <a href="/wiki/Qumran" title="Qumran">Qumran</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both bring the same excerpt as the Masoretic Text, with the only difference being the name "Gerizim", instead of "Ebal", therefore stating that Moses commanded the building of the altar on Mount Gerizim.<sup id="cite_ref-Magen_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Magen-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Peakes_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peakes-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recent work on the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, which include the oldest surviving manuscripts of the biblical text, further supports the accuracy of the Samaritan Pentateuch's designation of Mount Gerizim, rather than Mount Ebal, as the first location in the <a href="/wiki/Promised_Land" title="Promised Land">Promised Land</a> where Moses commanded an altar to be built.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All versions of the biblical text then have Moses specifying how the Israelites should split between the two groups that were to pronounce blessings from Mount Gerizim and to pronounce curses from Mount Ebal. The tribes <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Simeon" title="Tribe of Simeon">of Simeon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Levi" title="Tribe of Levi">Levi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Judah" title="Tribe of Judah">Judah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Issachar" title="Tribe of Issachar">Issachar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Joseph" title="Tribe of Joseph">Joseph</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Benjamin" title="Tribe of Benjamin">Benjamin</a> were to be sent to Gerizim, while those <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Reuben" title="Tribe of Reuben">of Reuben</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Gad" title="Tribe of Gad">Gad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Asher" title="Tribe of Asher">Asher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Zebulun" title="Tribe of Zebulun">Zebulun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Dan" title="Tribe of Dan">Dan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Naphtali" title="Tribe of Naphtali">Naphtali</a> were to remain on Ebal.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The altar to God is again mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Joshua" title="Book of Joshua">Book of Joshua</a>, when, after the Battle of <a href="/wiki/Ai_(Canaan)" title="Ai (Canaan)">Ai</a>, Joshua builds an altar of unhewn stones, the Israelites make peace offerings on it, the law of Moses is written onto the stones, and the Israelites split into the two groups specified in Deuteronomy and pronounce blessings on Mount Gerizim and curses on Mount Ebal, as instructed in the law of Moses.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Biblical scholars believe that the sources of the book of Joshua predate those of Deuteronomy, and hence the order to build the altar and make the inscriptions is likely based on these actions in the sources of Joshua, rather than the other way around, possibly to provide an <a href="/wiki/Etiology" title="Etiology">origin explanation</a> for the events narrated in Joshua.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim,_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim%2C_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg/220px-Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim%2C_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim%2C_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg/330px-Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim%2C_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim%2C_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg/440px-Samaritans_marking_Passover_on_Mount_Gerizim%2C_West_Bank_-_20060418.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="531" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Samaritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Samaritan">Samaritans</a>' <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a> <a href="/wiki/Pilgrimage" title="Pilgrimage">pilgrimage</a> on Mount Gerizim.</figcaption></figure> <p>When Joshua was old and dying, he gathered the people together at <a href="/wiki/Shechem" title="Shechem">Shechem</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Nablus" title="Nablus">Nablus</a>) and gave a farewell speech, and set up "<a href="/wiki/Baetyl" title="Baetyl">a stone as a witness</a>", placing it "next to the sanctuary of <a href="/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh">Yahweh</a>, under the oak tree",<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which indicates that a sanctuary to God existed there.<sup id="cite_ref-Peakes_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peakes-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mount Gerizim was also the site of the first <a href="/wiki/Parable" title="Parable">parable</a> in the Bible.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Judges%209:7–20&version=nrsv">Judges 9:7–20</a> records how <a href="/wiki/Jotham_(son_of_Gideon)" title="Jotham (son of Gideon)">Jotham</a> son of <a href="/wiki/Gideon" title="Gideon">Gideon</a> stands on the mountain to proclaim the parable of the trees who wanted to make the bramble king among them, an allusion to the people of <a href="/wiki/Schechem" class="mw-redirect" title="Schechem">Schechem</a> who wanted to make the ungodly and treacherous <a href="/wiki/Abimelech_(Judges)" title="Abimelech (Judges)">Abimelech</a> their king. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mount_Gerizim&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Samaritan_Temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Samaritan Temple">Samaritan Temple</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GerizimPesach.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/GerizimPesach.jpg/220px-GerizimPesach.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/GerizimPesach.jpg/330px-GerizimPesach.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/GerizimPesach.jpg/440px-GerizimPesach.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1675" data-file-height="1244" /></a><figcaption>Passover on Gerizim in the 1890s</figcaption></figure> <p>A Samaritan temple dedicated to Yahweh was built on Mount Gerizim during the 5th century <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BCE</span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It existed contemporaneously with the Jewish <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (September 2024)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> By that point, the Israelites were divided as "<a href="/wiki/Samaritans" title="Samaritans">Samaritans</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>", both claiming descendance from the Biblical Israelites and preaching adherence to the <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>, but diverging on the holiest place on Earth to adore God: Mount Gerizim for the Samaritans, and Jerusalem for the Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-JewishEncyclopedia_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishEncyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9F_1912_-_i_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A8i_btm782.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9F_1912_-_i_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A8i_btm782.jpeg/220px-%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9F_1912_-_i_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A8i_btm782.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9F_1912_-_i_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A8i_btm782.jpeg/330px-%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9F_1912_-_i_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A8i_btm782.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9F_1912_-_i_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A8i_btm782.jpeg/440px-%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D-_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%94%D7%9F_1912_-_i_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A8i_btm782.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="552" data-file-height="453" /></a><figcaption>Old view of Nablus and Mount Gerizim</figcaption></figure> <p>An adjacent city was built by the Samaritans during the <span class="nowrap">3rd century <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BCE</span></span>,</span> and became the cultural center for the Samaritans.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Religious rivalry between Samaritans and Jews led to Mount Gerizim being destroyed by the latter in <span class="nowrap">112–111 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BCE</span></span>,</span> on orders of <a href="/wiki/John_Hyrcanus" title="John Hyrcanus">John Hyrcanus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Berlin_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berlin-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even after the destruction of their temple by the Jews, Mount Gerizim continued to be the holy place for the Samaritans, as mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coins produced by a Roman mint situated in Nablus, dated to <span class="nowrap">138–161 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">CE</span></span>,</span> seemingly depict the destroyed Samaritan temple, showing a huge temple complex, statues, and a substantive staircase leading from Nablus to the temple.<sup id="cite_ref-BennettBull_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BennettBull-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of John</a> in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>, in his discussion with the <a href="/wiki/Samaritan_woman_at_the_well" title="Samaritan woman at the well">Samaritan woman at the well</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> reveals his feeling about worshipping in either Mount Gerizim (as the Samaritans did) or Jerusalem (as the Jews then did): </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=John%204:21–24&version=nrsv">John 4:21–24</a></cite></div></blockquote> <p>In <span class="nowrap">36 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">CE</span></span>,</span> unrest flared in Samaria when a charismatic figure<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (September 2024)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> rallied Samaritans to Mount Gerizim, claiming to unearth sacred vessels buried by Moses. <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a>, Roman governor of <a href="/wiki/Judaea_(Roman_province)" title="Judaea (Roman province)">Judaea</a>, alarmed by the growing assembly, deployed troops to block their ascent. This led to clashes, fatalities, and arrests, prompting Samaritan leaders to accuse Pilate of brutality. In response, <a href="/wiki/Vitellius" title="Vitellius">Vitellius</a>, the legate of Syria, appointed <a href="/wiki/Marcellus_(prefect_of_Judea)" title="Marcellus (prefect of Judea)">Marcellus</a> to govern <a href="/wiki/Judaea_(Roman_province)" title="Judaea (Roman province)">Judaea</a> and recalled Pilate to Rome for investigation by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a>, who died before Pilate's arrival.<sup id="cite_ref-Rogers-2021_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rogers-2021-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  75–76">(pp 75–76)</span></sup> </p><p>In the summer of <span class="nowrap">67 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">CE</span></span>,</span> during the <a href="/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War" title="First Jewish–Roman War">First Jewish–Roman War</a>, a large group of Samaritans gathered on Mount Gerizim. <a href="/wiki/Vespasian" title="Vespasian">Vespasian</a> dispatched Cerialis, who commanded <a href="/wiki/Legio_V_Macedonica" title="Legio V Macedonica">Legio V Macedonica</a>, with a small force of 600 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, probably banking on the Samaritans' lack of defenses and summer water shortages. While some surrendered upon the Romans' arrival, the majority chose to fight. The conflict resulted in significant Samaritan casualties, totaling 11,600, according to <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rogers-2021_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rogers-2021-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  227–228">(pp 227–228)</span></sup> </p><p>Eventually, when <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> became the <a href="/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="State church of the Roman Empire">state church of the Roman Empire</a>, Samaritans were barred from worshiping on Mount Gerizim. In <span class="nowrap">475 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">CE</span></span>,</span> a Christian <a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">church</a> was built on its summit.<sup id="cite_ref-Cheyne_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cheyne-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="Was there a church there a decade before Zeno's, or is this just a mistake? (September 2023)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Mount_Gerizim#Dubious" title="Talk:Mount Gerizim">discuss</a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (September 2024)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 484, during the reign of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Zeno_(emperor)" title="Zeno (emperor)">Zeno</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Martyrium" title="Martyrium">martyrium</a>-type octagonal church dedicated to the <a href="/wiki/Theotokos" title="Theotokos">Theotokos</a> (the God-bearing Virgin Mary) was erected at the site.<sup id="cite_ref-Centre_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Centre-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 529, <a href="/wiki/Justinian_I" title="Justinian I">Justinian I</a> made <a href="/wiki/Samaritanism" title="Samaritanism">Samaritanism</a> illegal and arranged for a protective wall to be constructed around the church.<sup id="cite_ref-JewishEncyclopedia_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishEncyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cheyne_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cheyne-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, the same year, <a href="/wiki/Julianus_ben_Sabar" title="Julianus ben Sabar">Julianus ben Sabar</a> led a pro-Samaritan revolt and by 530 had captured most of <a href="/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Samaria</a>, destroying churches and killing the priests and officials. However, in 531, after Justinian enlisted the help of <a href="/wiki/Ghassanids" title="Ghassanids">Ghassanids</a>, the revolt was completely quashed, and surviving Samaritans were mostly enslaved or exiled. In 533 Justinian had a castle constructed on Mount Gerizim to protect the church from raids by the few disgruntled Samaritans left in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-JewishEncyclopedia_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishEncyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cheyne_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cheyne-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Abu%27l-Fath" title="Abu'l-Fath">Abu'l-Fath</a>, <i>Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-LevyRubin-2002_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LevyRubin-2002-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during <a href="/wiki/Sukkot" title="Sukkot">Sukkot</a> in the seventh year of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Abbasid_caliphs" title="List of Abbasid caliphs">Abbasid Caliph</a> <a href="/wiki/Al-Mutawakkil" title="Al-Mutawakkil">al-Mutawakkil</a>'s reign (855), the governor of Nablus forbade Samaritans from praying aloud and blowing the <a href="/wiki/Shofar" title="Shofar">shofar</a>. However, the following Thursday, they ascended the mountain and prayed loudly without interruption.<sup id="cite_ref-LevyRubin-2002_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LevyRubin-2002-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeology">Archaeology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mount_Gerizim&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Archaeology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_Fenn._Ruins_on_the_summit_of_Mount_Gerizim,_on_the_site_of_the_Samaritan_temple._1881-1884.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Harry_Fenn._Ruins_on_the_summit_of_Mount_Gerizim%2C_on_the_site_of_the_Samaritan_temple._1881-1884.jpg/220px-Harry_Fenn._Ruins_on_the_summit_of_Mount_Gerizim%2C_on_the_site_of_the_Samaritan_temple._1881-1884.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Harry_Fenn._Ruins_on_the_summit_of_Mount_Gerizim%2C_on_the_site_of_the_Samaritan_temple._1881-1884.jpg/330px-Harry_Fenn._Ruins_on_the_summit_of_Mount_Gerizim%2C_on_the_site_of_the_Samaritan_temple._1881-1884.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Harry_Fenn._Ruins_on_the_summit_of_Mount_Gerizim%2C_on_the_site_of_the_Samaritan_temple._1881-1884.jpg/440px-Harry_Fenn._Ruins_on_the_summit_of_Mount_Gerizim%2C_on_the_site_of_the_Samaritan_temple._1881-1884.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1757" data-file-height="1207" /></a><figcaption>Ruins on Mount Gerizim <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1880</span>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Excavations at the site were initiated in 1983 and continued until 2006, and yielded tens of thousands of finds. Remnants found there identified that a Samaritan temple existed atop Mount Gerizim by the <span class="nowrap">mid-5th century <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BCE</span></span> </span> and that it was destroyed and rebuilt in the early <span class="nowrap">2nd century <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BCE</span></span>,</span> only to be destroyed again in <span class="nowrap">111–110 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BCE</span></span> </span> by Jewish forces.<sup id="cite_ref-Lipshz-Knprs-Albtz-2007_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lipshz-Knprs-Albtz-2007-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages:  157–165">(pp 157–165)</span></sup> The archeological finds have shown that the precincts of the Samaritan temple, not including its gates, measured <span class="nowrap">96 <a href="/wiki/Meter_(unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Meter (unit)">m</a> × 98 m.</span> Inside the perimeter, thousands of pottery vessels and burned bones of animal sacrifices were found – sheep, goats, cattle, and doves<sup id="cite_ref-Lipshz-Knprs-Albtz-2007_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lipshz-Knprs-Albtz-2007-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page:  162">(p 162)</span></sup> – as well as many stones with inscriptions containing the <a href="/wiki/Tetragrammaton" title="Tetragrammaton">Tetragrammaton</a> (the name of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Lipshz-Knprs-Albtz-2007_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lipshz-Knprs-Albtz-2007-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page:  168">(p 168)</span></sup> </p><p>In <span class="nowrap">475 <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">CE</span></span> </span> a Christian church was built on the Mount's summit. As a result of the fortified church and the previous Samaritan temple, extensive ruins still exist at the somewhat plateau-like top of Gerizim. The line of the wall around the church can easily be seen,<sup id="cite_ref-JewishEncyclopedia_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JewishEncyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as can portions of the former castle, and initial archaeological study of the site postulated that the castle built by Justinian had used stones from an earlier structure on the site, probably the Samaritan temple.<sup id="cite_ref-Cheyne_33-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cheyne-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the centre of the plateau is a smooth surface, containing a hollow.<sup id="cite_ref-Cheyne_33-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cheyne-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mount_Gerizim_-_ovedc_-_C_21.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Mount_Gerizim_-_ovedc_-_C_21.jpg/220px-Mount_Gerizim_-_ovedc_-_C_21.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Mount_Gerizim_-_ovedc_-_C_21.jpg/330px-Mount_Gerizim_-_ovedc_-_C_21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Mount_Gerizim_-_ovedc_-_C_21.jpg/440px-Mount_Gerizim_-_ovedc_-_C_21.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Archaeological remnants on Mount Gerizim's summit</figcaption></figure> <p>The excavation, initiated when the site was in the possession of <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> and continued under <a href="/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West_Bank" title="Israeli occupation of the West Bank">Israeli rule</a>, uncovered <a href="/wiki/Corinthian_column" class="mw-redirect" title="Corinthian column">Corinthian columns</a>, a large rectangular platform 65 m × 44 m (215 ft × 145 ft) surrounded by walls 2 m thick (6 ft) and 9 m high (30 ft), and a staircase 8 m wide (25 ft) leading down from the platform to a marbled <a href="/wiki/Esplanade" title="Esplanade">esplanade</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BennettBull_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BennettBull-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The complex also has a series of <a href="/wiki/Cistern" title="Cistern">cisterns</a> in which ceramics dated to the late Roman period were found.<sup id="cite_ref-BennettBull_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BennettBull-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These discoveries are now called "structure A", and have been dated to the time of <a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a> from <a href="/wiki/Numismatics" title="Numismatics">excavated coins</a> and external literary evidence.<sup id="cite_ref-BennettBull_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BennettBull-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Underneath these remains were found a large stone structure built on top of the bedrock. This structure, now known as "structure B", is nearly half of a cube (21 m × 20 m in width and length, and 8.5 m high). It has no internal rooms or dividing walls and consists almost entirely of uncut limestone slabs fitted together <a href="/wiki/Dry_stone" title="Dry stone">without any mortar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BennettBull_31-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BennettBull-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Structure B was surrounded by a courtyard (60 m × 40 m, with 1.5 m thick walls) similar to the platform above it, and was dated to during or before the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic period</a>, from ceramics found in a <a href="/wiki/Cistern" title="Cistern">cistern</a> cut into the bedrock at the northern side.<sup id="cite_ref-BennettBull_31-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BennettBull-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The excavating archaeologist considered "structure B" to be the altar built by the Samaritans in the 5th or <span class="nowrap">6th century <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BCE</span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-BennettBull_31-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BennettBull-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mount_Gerizim&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is possible that the name of the mountain may mean <i>mountain of the Gerizites</i>, a tribe in the vicinity of the <a href="/wiki/Philistines" title="Philistines">Philistines</a> that, according to the Hebrew Bible, was conquered by <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Peakes_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peakes-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another possible meaning is <i>mountain cut in two</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cheyne_33-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cheyne-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the narrative about <a href="/wiki/Jotham_(son_of_Gideon)" title="Jotham (son of Gideon)">Jotham</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Judges" title="Book of Judges">Book of Judges</a>, Shechem was a site where there was a sanctuary of <i>El-Berith</i>, also known as <a href="/wiki/Baal_Berith" title="Baal Berith">Baal Berith</a>, meaning "God of the covenant" and "Lord of the covenant", respectively;<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> scholars have suggested that the Joshua story about the site derives from a covenant made there in Canaanite times.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the narrative of Judges, the "pillar that was in Shechem" is seemingly significant enough to have given its name to a nearby plain (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Judges%209:6&version=nrsv">Judges 9:6</a>), and this pillar is thought to be likely to have been a <a href="/wiki/Baetylus" class="mw-redirect" title="Baetylus">baetylus</a> of El-Berith; the Joshua story, of a stone being set up as a witness, simply being an attempt to provide an <a href="/wiki/Etiology" title="Etiology">etiology</a> in accordance with later Israelite theology.<sup id="cite_ref-Cheyne_33-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cheyne-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mount_Gerizim&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samaritan_Revolts" class="mw-redirect" title="Samaritan Revolts">Samaritan Revolts</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_citations">Notes and citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mount_Gerizim&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes and citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110301878.52/html">"3. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imwas" title="Imwas">Emmaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fahma" title="Fahma">Fahma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fara%27ata" title="Fara'ata">Fara'ata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farkha" title="Farkha">Farkha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Funduq" title="Al-Funduq">Fondeka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaza_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaza city">Gaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immatain" title="Immatain">Immatain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaffa" title="Jaffa">Jaffa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jit,_Qalqilya" title="Jit, Qalqilya">Jit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasuf" title="Yasuf">Jusepheh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kafr_Abbush" title="Kafr Abbush">Kafr Abbush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kafr_Qaddum" title="Kafr Qaddum">Kafr Qaddum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kafr_Qallil" title="Kafr Qallil">Kafr Qallil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kafr_Zibad" title="Kafr Zibad">Kafr Zibad</a></li> <li><a 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