The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect; their history, theology, and literature . A Coin of Flavia the reign of Voliisian, whose head appears on the reverse. Through courtesy of the British A Medal of Flavia Neapolis of Palestinian Syria. The reverse bears the legend, in Greek, Antoninus, Augustus, Pius, Emper-or, Caesar. Gerizim is here represented, and in the foreground probably thetemple of Jupiter with the stairs leading down to Xeapolis (referred to by theBordeaux Pilgrim: ibi ascenduntur usque ad summum montem gradus ). In the background above appears proba
The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect; their history, theology, and literature . A Coin of Flavia the reign of Voliisian, whose head appears on the reverse. Through courtesy of the British A Medal of Flavia Neapolis of Palestinian Syria. The reverse bears the legend, in Greek, Antoninus, Augustus, Pius, Emper-or, Caesar. Gerizim is here represented, and in the foreground probably thetemple of Jupiter with the stairs leading down to Xeapolis (referred to by theBordeaux Pilgrim: ibi ascenduntur usque ad summum montem gradus ). In the background above appears probably the Pagan sanctuaiy whichonce crowned Gerizims top. This medal is in the ^luseum of the RoyalLibrary, Paris, and is reproduced from a cut in Barges, Les Samaritains. FROM A. D. 70 TO CONSTANTINE 89 §2. FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM TO THE CHRIS-TIANIZATION OF THE EMPIRE.^^ One permanent result of interest to the sect of the Samari-tans came from Vespasians presence in the land. It is rea-sonably certain that this emperor built the modern Shechem,the elder city having lain farther to the east; his foundationhe called Neapolis, New-City, or more fully and as it ap-pears on the coins, Flavia Neapoli
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