Mount Gerizim

Mount Gerizim (recording of 1900)

F The Gerizim, also Gerizzim, Garizin (Hebrew גריזים, gr Γαριζ ( ε ) ιν, Arabic جبل جرزيم Jabal Dscharizīm ) is a 881 m high mountain of nummulite in Palestine, at the northern foot of Nablus ( Biblical Shechem ) is.

The Gerizim is a bare, wide, gently towards the south abdachendes plateau; its waste to the city, however, is rugged and steep.

The Samaritans locate on the top of the mountain the altar that had been built by order of Moses according to Deut 27.4 EU and Jos 8.30 EU of Joshua. Here stood the temple of the Samaritans, which was built in the 4th century BC and destroyed in 129 BCE by the Hasmonean king John Hyrcanus I ( 135-104 BC). Excavations since 1964 the temple were exposed to 881m. Coins from Nablus (ancient Neapolis ) show the appearance of the plant.

Under Emperor Hadrian, a Temple of Zeus was built on the mountain; under the Emperor Zeno was born 484 AD an octagonal Christian church.

The Gerizim is the mountain that in John's Gospel (Jn 4,20 EU) is mentioned as a place of worship YHWH by the Samaritans; for the Samaritans he has this meaning until now.