Samaritan High Priest
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The Samaritan High Priest is the High Priest of Israel for the Samaritans.
Family of the Samaritan High Priests, 1876. To the left is a scribe named Shalabi, to the right are Isaac, the son of the High Priest Amram ben Shalma, then Abisha, the son of Amram's brother Fīnās, and finally ʿUzzi, son of the High Priest Yaʿqob ben Aharon ben Shalma, the son of Amram's brother Aharon.
Jacob I
Maṣliaḥ (or Abishah III)
Amram IX
Samaritans
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Samaritans, often preferring to be called Israelite Samaritans, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Hebrews and Israelites of the ancient Near East. They are indigenous to Samaria, a hist
Samaritan High Priest
…The Samaritan High Priest (Samaritan Hebrew: haka’en hagadol; Arabic: الكاهن الأكبر, romanized: al-Kāhin al-Akbar) is the High Priest of Israel for the Samaritans. According to Samaritan tradition, the office has existed continuously since the time of Aaron, the brother of Moses, and has been held by 133 priests…
Samaritans marking Passover on Mount Gerizim, near modern Nablus and ancient Shechem, 2006
Foreigners eaten by lions in Samaria, illustration by Gustave Doré from the 1866 La Sainte Bible, The Holy Bible
Ruins of the Hellenistic-era Samaritan settlement on Mount Gerizim, built next to the Samaritan Temple and destroyed c. 110 BCE
Central panel of the mosaic floor from the 4th-century El-Khirbe synagogue, now displayed in the Good Samaritan Museum