History of ancient Israel and Judah

History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - History of ancient Israel and Judah

In compiling the history of ancient Israel and Judah, there are many available sources, including the Jewish Tanakh (partially the Old Testament, it also consists of the book of the prophets, and the five books of Moses) and other Jewish texts such as the Talmud, the Ethiopian book of history known as the Kebra Nagast, the writings of historians such as Nicolaus of Damascus, Artapanas, Philo of Alexandria and Josephus, other writings, and archaeological e ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia II - History of ancient Israel and Judah - Early history The Mousterian Neanderthals were the earliest inhabitants of the area known to archaeologists, and have been carbon-dated to c. 200,000 BCE. The first anatomically modern humans to live in the area were the Kebarans (conventionally c. 18,000 - 10,500 BCE, but recent paleoanthropological evidence suggests that Kebarans may have arrived as early as 75,000 BCE and shared the region with the Neanderthals for millennia before the latter died out). They were followed by the Natufian culture (c. 10,500 BCE - 8500 BCE), the Yarmukians (c. 8500 - 430 ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Judah

Judah (יְהוּדָה "Praise", Standard Hebrew Yəhuda, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhûḏāh) is the name of several Biblical and historical figures. The original Greek text of the New Testament makes no difference between the names "Judah", "Judas" and "Jude", rendering them all as Ioudas; but in many English translations "Judah" is used for the Old Testament figure and the tribe named after him, "Judas" is used primarily for Judas Iscariot, and "Jude" for other New Testament persons of the same name. ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Uzziah of Judah

Uzziah of Judah (עוזיהו) (also known as Azariah), was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, and one of Amaziah's sons, whom the people appointed to replace his father (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chronicles 26:1). William F. Albright has dated his reign to 783 BC-742 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 767 BC-740 BC. Uzziah of Judah - Biblical tradition. His long reign of about fifty-two years was "the most prosperous excepting that of Jehoshaphat since the time of Solomon." He was a vigor ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Asa of Judah

Asa (אָסָא, Standard Hebrew Asa, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĀsâ) was king of Judah, the son of Abijam, and grandson of Rehoboam. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 913 BC-873 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 911 BC-870 BC. 2 Chronicles describes his reign in a favorable manner: "He did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God" (2 Chr. 14:2). Immediately after his accession to the throne he deprived his idolatrous grandmother Maachah of the title of Queen Mother (2 Chr. 15:16-18). He devoted his life to ...

History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Israel

The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל ▶ (help·info); Medinat Yisra'el; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ إِسْرَائِيل, Dawlat Isrā'īl) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a parliamentary democracy and the world's only Jewish state. The name "Israel" is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, wherein Jacob is renamed Israel after wrestling with a mysterious adversary ("a man", and later "God" according to Genesis 32:24- ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of significant cultural and political events from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages. Although the ending date is largely arbitrary, most Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476 as the traditional end of ancient history. Another term that is often used to refer to ancient history is antiquity, although this term is most often used to refer specifically to ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Acre Israel

The city of Acre (Hebrew עַכּוֹ, Standard Hebrew ʻAkko, Tiberian Hebrew ʻAkkô; Arabic عكّا ʻAkkā ▶ (help·info); also Accho, Acco, and St.-Jean d'Acre), is in Western Galilee in the North District, Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2003 the city had a total population of 45,600. It stands on a low promontory at the northern extremity of the Bay of Acr ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - British Israelism

British Israelism (sometimes called Anglo-Israelism) is a complex set of theories, not necessarily compatible with each other, that have in common the idea that the British are the direct lineal descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. The theory is held by a minority of Christians, usually Protestants of British descent. British Israelism is based on the idea that large numbers of the tribes were deported by Sargon, king of Assyria, on the fall of Samaria in 721 BC. Critics of the theory state that the Assyrian chronicles of the time cla ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Amon of Judah

Amon of Judah was the king of Judah and son of Manasseh. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 642 BC-640 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 643 BC-641 BC. He restored idolatry, and set up the images which his father had cast down. Zephaniah (1:4; 3:4, 11) describes his reign as marked by moral depravity. He was assassinated (2 Kings 21:18-26: 2 Chronicles 33:20 ...

History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Terrorism against Israel

Since the failure of the Camp David Accords in the summer of 2000, many acts of militancy were committed by individuals, militant Palestinian groups, and members of the Palestinian Authority against Israeli civilians. This is a partial chronology of actions resulting in deaths during the al-Aqsa Intifada: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 Prior acts of Palestinian militancy are omitted from this page. See Militancy against Israel before 2000. Terrorism against Israel - Early history. ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia - Bethel Israel

Bethel (Hebrew בֵּית־אֵל, Standard Hebrew Bet El, Beyt El, Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ-ʼĒl) is a Biblical city in ancient Israel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem in Samaria (Northern West Bank). Bethel has been identified by some with the ruins surrounding the Palestinian village of Beitin and by others with the modern Israeli settlement of Beit El. It is frequently associated with the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob. Abraham made a sanctuary in the area, giving the place the name Bethel, the city call ...

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History of ancient Israel and Judah: Encyclopedia II - Kingdom of Israel - United Monarchy

Around 1030-1020 BCE (chronology varies), the children of the patriarch Jacob (Israel) united to form the Kingdom of Israel. Saul was the first King of Israel. He unified the tribes under a single Israelite authority, but, according to the book Samuel, due to his disobedience to God, he ruled for only two years. David, the second King of Israel, established Jerusalem as Israel's national capital around 3,000 years ago. Before then, Shi ...

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