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Newly Discovered Temples on Mt. Gerizim in Jordan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Robert J. Bull
Affiliation:
School of TheologyDrew UniversityMadison, N.J.
G. Ernest Wright
Affiliation:
Harvard Divinity School

Abstract

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Notes & Observations
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1965

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References

1 See G. F. Hill, A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum (London, 1914), 48ft. and Pis. V–VII.

2 Migne, Patrologia, Graeca, Vol. 103, Col. 1283. In this collection of codices Photius of Constantinople included an account of the Life of Isidore by Damascius (Codex CCXLII). In this account Marinus of Neapolis is quoted in reference to the temple on Mt. Gerizim (Hargarizus).

3 F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine I (Paris, 1933), 365 and notes 5–6 which cite the texts in full.

4 The date is obtained inferentially by Abel (ibid., 366 n.1) from the Samaritan Chronicle.

5 Josephus, Antiquities XI, 302ft.; XIII, 255–56; War I, 62–63. Cf. further Wright, G. Ernest, “The Samaritans at Shechem,” HTR 55 (1962), 357–66CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Cross, Frank M., Jr., “The Discovery of the Samaria Papyri,” BA 26 (1963), 110–21Google Scholar. The likeness to the Jerusalem temple is cited by Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 255–56; War I, 62–63.

6 C. R. Conder and H. H. Kitchener, The Survey of Western Palestine. Memoirs, Vol. II (London, 1882), 192.

7 See J. T. Milik in Discoveries in the Judean Desert, Vol. III (Oxford, 1962), 298. The text in question is col. xii of the Copper Scroll, lines 61–62 which Milik translates: “Au mont Garizim, sous les marches de la fosse supérieure: Un coffer avec son contenu ainsi que 60 talents d'argent.” For the same author's discussion of the term חיש, rendered “fosse,” see p. 241 (word 38).

8 How the figure “53 feet square” in the report of Sir Charles Wilson was obtained, we were unable to determine.