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| Royal Palace complex of Samaria
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Fine Israelite vessels from the 8th century, called `Samaria Ware' include bowls, very beautiful, highly lustrous, red pottery which was burnished and rubbed until it is almost like porcelain to the touch. According to archaeologists, it was not made in Samaria. [See Samaria-Sebaste, Vol. III, Pl. XVI and Frontispiece; attributed to just before the fall in ca. 721 BC., periods V and VI; G.E. Wright, Samaria in BA, Vol. XXII, Sep 1959, p. 78.
The only `Bible', holy book of the Samaritans was the Pentateuch. The Samaritan Pentateuch, as it is known, differs only in minor details from the version preserved by the Jews. In two respects, however, the differences are significant. Where, in repeated passages, the rabbinic Pentateuch speaks of "the place that God will choose," namely Jerusalem, the Samaritan version speaks of "the place that God has chosen," namely the Samaritan mountain of Mt. Gerizim, in the West Bank. The other significant difference is that the version contains eleven commandments |
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