MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank — When Ben Yehuda Altif got engaged to his first cousin Mazal, there was no problem winning the blessing of their families or the Samaritan high priest, who leads their ...

Archaeologists have discovered the estate of a wealthy ancient Samaritan at Zur Natan in central Israel. A Greek inscription reveals that the agricultural property belonged to a man named “Adios,” who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker from the Israel Antiquities Authority work at an unearthed expansive Samaritan agricultural estate,1,600 years old, on ...

A 1,600-year-old estate connected to the ancient Samaritans – a group depicted in the Bible – has been uncovered in Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

The existence of the Samaritans reminds us that possessing a text is not enough. The greater wonder is the survival of a ...

KIRYAT LUZA, West Bank (Reuters) - Guardians of an ancient faith with a cameo role in the Bible, the 750 surviving followers of the Samaritan religion are using surprisingly modern methods to keep ...

Savannah may boast thousands of Biblical "Good Samaritans." But an ethnic Samaritan, a descendant of the ancient community of Samaria, will be speaking at a downtown synagogue Sunday. Benyamim "Benny" ...

(JTA) — More than 20 years after the theft of ancient Torah scrolls from a synagogue in Nablus, the Israel Antiquities Authority retrieved one page from the missing objects and invited its owners to ...