A 1969 one-minute archival actuality film held by the Israeli Film Archive at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, documenting the Samaritan community's Passover sacrifice on Mount Gerizim near Nablus. The archive's own synopsis describes Samaritans gathering around ovens dug into the ground, and, after a religious ritual, forty lambs sacrificed for Passover being skinned, impaled and roasted, a ceremony the small Samaritan community continues to perform on the mountain to this day, directly following the instructions of Exodus 12.
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Production
Release Year Country of OriginMount Gerizim, Israel/West Bank 1 Subject Matter
Religious Subject MatterThe Samaritan Passover sacrifice on Mount Gerizim, the community's holiest site: the archive's own title and synopsis name the ceremony outright as the film's entire subject. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Mount Gerizim directly: "community's Passover sacrifice on Mount Gerizim near Nablus."
This source names Samaritans directly: "The archive's own synopsis describes Samaritans gathering around ovens dug into the ground, and, after a religious ritual, forty lambs sacrificed for Passover being skinned, impaled and roasted, a..."
Belongs to Tradition
The Israeli Film Archive's own catalogue title and synopsis name Samaritans and the Passover sacrifice at Mount Gerizim, the community's holiest site, outright as the film's subject, making this the first screen work the atlas holds for the tradition.
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