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Inn of the Good Samaritan Becomes a Museum

By Yitzhak Magen

“What must I do to inherit eternal life?” the man of the law asks Jesus.
“What is written in the law? What do you read there?”

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Footnotes

1.

See Suzanne F. Singer, “The Winter Palaces of Jericho,” BAR 03:02.

2.

The palace was recently excavated by Yuval Peleg on behalf of the Staff Officer of Archaeology—Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, Yitzhak Magen.

3.

See Yitzhak Magen, “Bells, Pendants, Snakes & Stones—A Samaritan Temple to the Lord on Mt. Gerizim,” BAR 36:06.

4.

See Strata: “King David Gets a Facelift,” BAR 37:01.

Endnotes

1.

J. Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (Warminster, 2002), pp. 86–87.

2.

G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville et al., eds., The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea (Jerusalem: Carta, 2003), pp. 21–22.

3.

Jerome, Onomasticon, 611; see also E. Klosterman, trans., Eusebius Werke: Das Onomastikon 119.4–6, 173.27 (Leipzig, 1904). The Tour Rouge was recently excavated by Yitzhak Magen, Yuval Peleg and Uzi Greenfeld of the Staff Officer of Archaeology—Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria.

4.

For further reading on the Samaritans and on the Good Samaritan Inn, see Yitzhak Magen, The Samaritans and the Good Samaritan, JSP 7, (Jerusalem: IAA, 2008).

5.

On the Museum and the mosaics display see: Yitzhak Magen, The Good Samaritan Museum, JSP 12 (Jerusalem: IAA, 2010).