Mount Gerizim

In the Hebrew Bible, Melchizedek was the king of Salem and priest of (often translated as "God Most High"). He is mentioned in Genesis 14:18–20, where he brings out bread and wine and blesses Abram (Abraham), following the Battle of the Vale of Siddim and Abram's subsequent rescue of the captives and plunder taken in the battle, and in Psalm 110:4.

mountain in Judea and Samaria Area, Palestine

Israeli settlement in Samaria

Roman legion

story from the Tanakh

three major festivals in Judaism

thumb|Map of Jerusalem in 1925, showing the location of Mount Moriah according to Jewish sources thumb|The area around Mount Gerizim is identified by the [[Samaritans as the "land of Moriah", or "Moreh".]] Moriah (Hebrew: ) is the name given to a region in the Book of Genesis where the binding of Isaac by Abraham is said to have taken place. Jews identify the region mentioned in Genesis and the specific mountain in which the near-sacrifice is said to have occurred with "Mount Moriah", mentioned in the Book of Chronicles as the place where Solomon's Temple is said to have been built, and both t

son of Gideon

Jewish settlement near Nablus

Tractate of the Mishnah and the Talmud

mosque in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine

Samaritan chronicle

Early 3rd century Judean rabbi