Hodge-podge. That precise, academic term is the first that used to come to my mind when thinking of the Book of Deuteronomy. And it didn’t bother me that this was so; in fact, it seemed most fitting.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AFFAIRS: Early Hellenistic period dwelling opened to visitors • Samaritan community has mixed feelings about park on its holy mountain Rising some 886 meters above sea level, Mount ...

Headlines have been splashed across newspapers in recent days about Arabs destroying part of the archaeological site at Mount Ebal. Israelis would be outraged by the destruction at any biblical ...

On the summit of Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus, members of the Samaritan community -- one of the smallest religious communities in the world -- build their homes, believing the spot ...

Tel Aviv University researchers have identified a group of prehistoric stone tools discovered in central Israel as 400,000-year-old implements designed for butchering and processing fallow deer, the ...

MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank — The courtyard on Mount Gerizim overlooking the northern West Bank city of Nablus was abuzz Sunday evening as Samaritan elders led their small community in vociferous prayer ...

Dozens of Samaritans, a small religious sect based in the West Bank city of Nablus, performed their annual Sukkah pilgrimage on Sunday to the nearby Mount Gerizim. Samaritans perform the ritual every ...

For decades, it seemed as though one of the world's smallest religious communities was doomed. Dwindling and insular, the Samaritans of Mount Gerizim were struggling to survive as inbreeding produced ...