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 ...

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 ...

No. Not that one lonely Samaritan, on a road two millennia ago. This is not about him, famous from the New Testament parable of The Good Samaritan who stops and helps a beaten traveler after two ...

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 1,500-year-old synagogue near the city of Beit Shean in the Jordan Valley, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday. The remains ...

Sept. 2 (UPI) --A large Samaritan estate has been unearthed by archaeologists in Israel, uncovering a wealth of treasures including mosaics, baths and an ancient oil press. The dig is in Kafr Qasim, ...

(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 ...

Steven Fine is professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University and director of the university’s Israelite Samaritans Project. When my oldest son was in fourth grade, he was studying in a Talmud ...