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Samaritanism
Israelite Samaritan religion
c.400 BCE (formal split) – present · Abrahamic · Living · Mount Gerizim, Nablus, and Holon, Israel
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
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### Its timeline
- 722 BCE Assyria destroys the northern kingdom; the origin of the dispute.
- c.450–400 BCE Nehemiah's opposition to Sanballat; the communities harden against each other.
- c.330 BCE Temple built on Mount Gerizim.
- 128 BCE John Hyrcanus, the Judean Hasmonean ruler, destroys the Gerizim temple. The breach becomes permanent.
- c.30 CE The parable of the Good Samaritan works as a story only because its audience despised Samaritans.
- 529 CE Samaritan revolts against Byzantine rule are crushed; the population collapses catastrophically.
- 1919 CE The community reaches its recorded low of 146 people.
- 1954 Israeli president Ben-Zvi assists the community; half relocate to Holon.
- Present About 850 people, split between Kiryat Luza on Mount Gerizim and Holon, holding both Israeli and Palestinian documents and maintaining relations with both.
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