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Palestine: Shavuot Festival of Samaritans

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June 4, 2017 - Nablus, Palestine - Samaritans participate in a traditional ceremony celebrating the giving of the Torah on ''Shavuot festival'', atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus. Shavuot Festival, known as the Feast of Weeks and as Pentecost in ancient Greek, is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan. The Samaritan is a religious group that split from Judaism by the second century B.C.E. The Samaritans retained the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, as their Scripture. The Samaritan Bible refers to Mt. Gerizim, not Jerusalem, as the center of worship. (Credit Image: © Yunjie Liao/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)

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June 4, 2017 - Nablus, Palestine - Samaritans participate in a traditional ceremony celebrating the giving of the Torah on ''Shavuot festival'', atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus. Shavuot Festival, known as the Feast of Weeks and as Pentecost in ancient Greek, is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan. The Samaritan is a religious group that split from Judaism by the second century B.C.E. The Samaritans retained the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, as their Scripture. The Samaritan Bible refers to Mt. Gerizim, not Jerusalem, as the center of worship. (Credit Image: © Yunjie Liao/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)