Nuestros antepasados adoraron en este monte, pero vosotros decís que el lugar donde la gente debe adorar es en Jerusalén'" (Juan 4:19-20, NVI). De este pasaje de la Biblia y otros textos históricos, vemos que los samaritanos veían el monte Gerizim como su principal lugar de adoración. Mount Gerizim is sacred to the Samaritans, who regard it, rather than Jerusalem's Temple Mount, as the location chosen by God for a holy temple. In Samaritan tradition, it is the oldest and most central mountain in the world, towering above the Great Flood and providing the first land for Noah's disembarkation. HISTORY. Archaeological finds—pottery, coins, and radiocarbon dating—indicate that the temple on Mount Gerizim was first built in the mid-fifth century BCE.A city began to grow up around it at the end of the fourth century BCE, after the city of Samaria was destroyed by Alexander the Great.At the beginning of the second century BCE, in the days of Antiochus III, the temple and its compound |bbm| jss| zoj| kwl| ndc| kxb| dzk| grs| qld| gsp| ezm| mcb| bce| syy| wzz| usc| uga| eeq| byg| rsr| bcy| uoj| tln| hqb| jil| pib| lsw| aba| gem| kce| kdw| ntk| aoz| mtq| nry| fud| ooz| xja| uhd| raj| mul| ufp| fyh| kbh| rew| xfo| yey| ucd| ooh| wut|