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Jews are commemorating Passover with chanted prayers and symbolic foods-the bitter herbs, the salt, the unleavened bread. But on one high mountain, near Jerusalem, another people keep their Passover just as the Lord commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, with the blood of lambs "without blemish" which are eaten in haste, loins girded for the sudden flight. These are the Samaritans...
...century B.C. the Samaritan kingdom was called Israel. When the Assyrians "swept down like a wolf on the fold," they carried off most of the Israelites, leaving behind a destitute few who eventually intermarried with the invaders. Two centuries later, the Persian Cyrus freed the Jews of Jerusalem and returned them to their homeland; the Samaritans offered to help rebuild the temple, but were coldly rebuffed...
...Samaritans retaliated by rejecting the Jews. They proclaimed themselves the true remnant of Israel. The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem was not the true temple; the correct site, they said, was on Mount Gerizim, where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice. There the Samaritans set up their own temple and held that there had been no prophet since Moses and no law save that in the Pentateuch...
...Haste. This week, as they have for the past six years, the Israeli Samaritans will journey to join their brethren for Passover on Mount Gerizim. Bearing gifts of clothes, toys and fruit, the 130 men, women and children will cross the border at Jerusalem's Mandelbaum Gate, climb aboard buses for the 70-minute ride to the sacred mountain on which they must remain during the whole seven days of Passover, in accordance with Jordanian security regulations...
Looking for something to deepen the sense of Christian solidarity on the layman's level, Cullmann was inspired by the collection St. Paul made among his missionary churches for the poor Christians in Jerusalem. This, says Cullmann, was not merely an act of charity but was intended by Paul as a "symbol of unity" between circumcised and uncircumcised, Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since unity is not possible today, the offering "would no longer be a symbol of unity, but of solidarity, of brotherhood among all who invoke the name of Christ...