Samaria

Shomron (Samaria) is literally a watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the "hill of Shomeron," a solitary mountain, a great "mamelon". It is an oblong hill, with steep but not inaccessible sides, and a long flat top. Omri, the king of Israel, purchased this hill from Shemer its owner for two talents of silver, and built on its broad summit the city to which he gave the name of "Shomeron", i.e., Samaria, as the new capital of his kingdom instead of Tirzah (1 Kings 16:24). As such it possessed many advantage ...

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Samaria, Samaria - Geographical location, Samaria - Political control, Samaria - Samaria today, Samaria - Samaritans, Samaria - Capital of the Kingdom of Israel, Samaria - Ancient occupation, Samaria - New Testament reference

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The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. Sadat also said he wanted them to be called the Carter Accords. Camp David Accords 1978 - Background. Upon assuming office on January 20, 1977, President Carter moved to rejuvenate the Middle Eastern ...

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• Camp David Accords 1978 - Background
• Camp David Accords 1978 - The Sadat Peace Initiative
• Camp David Accords 1978 - The talks
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Terms of the agreements
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Consequences
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Related articles
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

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Amon can refer to: Amun, Egyptian god, also known sometimes as Amon In the Bible, the governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25). Amon of Judah, king of the Kingdom of Judah and son of Manasseh Amon a demon Amon, Formula One team Ammon_(nation) Amon also means "Mountain" or "Mount" in Sindarin, an artificial language by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other related archivesAmmon_(nation), Amon, Amon of Judah,

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Micah wrote the book in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, roughly 735-700 BC Few Old Testament scholars today would defend Micah's authorship of the entire book. However, some scholars attribute much more of the materials to Micah than others. The authorship of the book of Micah is somehow controversial. It is generally agreed that Micah composed chapters 1 through 3; some scholars hold that chapter 6 and sections of chapter 7 were also written by the historical Micah. Book of Micah - When was it written?. Including:

• Book of Micah - Who wrote it?
• Book of Micah - When was it written?
• Book of Micah - Where was it written
• Book of Micah - Why was it written
• Book of Micah - What are the themes of the books?

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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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• Israel - History
• Israel - Historical roots
• Israel - Zionism and Aliyah
• Israel - Establishment of the State
• Israel - War of Independence
• Israel - Continuing immigration
• Israel - Subsequent wars
• Israel - Articles related to the wars
• Israel - Politics and law
• Israel - Legislature
• Israel - Constitution and Legal System
• Israel - Judiciary
• Israel - Military
• Israel - Geography
• Israel - Metropolitan areas
• Israel - Economy
• Israel - Demographics
• Israel - Children's welfare
• Israel - Religion in Israel
• Israel - Culture and religion
• Israel - Footnotes
• Israel - Annotated List of Israeli Media Sources

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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 - Early history
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - The patriarchal period
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Egyptian domination
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Period of the Judges
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - The United Monarchy
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - The period of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - The period of captivity
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Rebuilding the Temple
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - The legacy of Alexander the Great and the dawn of Rabbinic Judaism
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Roman conquests
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Notable people
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Partial list of kings of Israel
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Partial list of kings of Judah
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Notable places
• History of ancient Israel and Judah - Religious places and objects

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ZAKA זק"א - איתור חילוץ והצלה - חסד של אמת (an abbreviation for "Identifying Victims of Disaster" (in Hebrew: Zihuy Korbanot Asson)), is a voluntary community emergency response team in the State of Israel, officially recognized by the government. The organization was founded in 1989 by Yehuda Meshi Zahav and Rabbi Moshe Aizenbach. Members of ZAKA, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, assist ambulance crews, identify the victims of terrorism, road accidents and other disasters, and where neces ...

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• ZAKA - Early history
• ZAKA - Growing public recognition
• ZAKA - Recent history

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Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Ashur. Later, as a nation and Empire, it also came to include roughly the northern half of Mesopotamia (the southern half being Babylonia). Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes called the "Mountains of Ashur". Assyria - Early history. Of the earl ...

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• Assyria - Early history
• Assyria - Old Assyrian city-state
• Assyria - Assyrian Empire
• Assyria - Assyrian empire-building
• Assyria - Sargonid dynasty
• Assyria - Downfall and heritage

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Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash (Jeroboam II), ruler of Israel from 793 BCE to 753 BCE, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms (Israel in the North and Judah in the South) were peaking in prosperity. He was a contemporary of the prophet Hosea, but likely preceded him. Many of the earlier accounts of prophets found in the Old Testament are found within the context of other accounts of Israel's history. Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the ...

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• Book of Amos - Who wrote it?
• Book of Amos - When was it written?
• Book of Amos - Where was it written?
• Book of Amos - Why was it written?
• Book of Amos - What are the themes of the books?
• Book of Amos - Translations of the book of Amos:
• Book of Amos - References:

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A chronology of the Bible's major events and figures based largely on the Old Testament, New Testament, and Mishna sources, and on the work of James Ussher. Dates in the Bronze Age are traditional and do not have archaeological corroborations. Dates in the Iron Age and later are placed by the Bible into the wider framework of history, and so are dated by biblical references to historically verifiable events, such as Shishak's raid in 925 BCE. For a historical look at the bible see The Bible and history See Short chronology for a more detailed history of th ...

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• Bible chronology - Bronze age
• Bible chronology - Iron age to Babylonian exile
• Bible chronology - Second temple period
• Bible chronology - New Testament period
• Bible chronology - Anno Domini

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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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• Bethel Israel - Sources

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Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Inti ...

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• Basic Laws of Israel - List of Basic Laws of Israel

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This article is about the history of Christianity and anti-Semitism. Anti-Jewish sentiment has been expressed by many Christians over the last 2000 years, but many other Christians, increasingly in recent years, have also condemned these sentiments. Christianity and anti-Semitism - Early origins. There have been philosophical differences between Christianity and Rabbinical Judaism since the outset. Debates between the early Christians - who at first were all Jews - and other Jews initially revolved around the ques ...

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• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Early origins
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Assimilation
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the New Testament
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Church Fathers
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Later Christian writers
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Jews' expulsion from England
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The Jews' expulsion from Spain
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Christians in Nazi Germany
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Collaborating Christians
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Opposition to the Holocaust
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Comparisons between Nazi Germany and early Christian states' policies with regards to Jews
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Reasons that anti-Semitism continued
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - 19th- and 20th-century Christian anti-Semitism
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - The White Power movement
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in modern-day nations
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Current attempts to convert Jews to Christianity
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Reconciliation between Judaism and Christian groups
• Christianity and anti-Semitism - Kevin MacDonald's theory of Christian anti-Semitism

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Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Bible. As with the historical records from any other civilization, the manuscripts must be compared to other accounts from contemporary societies in Europe, Mesopotamia, and Africa; additionally, records from neighbors must be compared with them. The scientific techniques employed are those of archaeology in g ...

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• Biblical archaeology - Milestones prior to 1914
• Biblical archaeology - Milestones during 1914 - 1945
• Biblical archaeology - Milestones after 1945
• Biblical archaeology - Confirmed Biblical structures
• Biblical archaeology - Artifacts from documented excavations
• Biblical archaeology - Artifacts with unknown disputed or disproved provenance
• Biblical archaeology - Professional commentary

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Image:Sennacheribprism.gifIn 721 BCE, the Assyrian army captured the Israelite capital at Samaria and carried away the citizens of the northern kingdom into captivity. The virtual destruction of Israel left the southern kingdom, Judah, to fend for itself in the whirlwind of warring Near Eastern kingdoms. At the time of Samaria's fall, there existed two kings in Judah — Ahaz and his son Hezekiah — who ruled as co-regents. Judah existed as a vassal to Assyria during this time and was forced to pay an annual tribute to the powerful empire.< ...

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• Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem - Hezekiah's reforms
• Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem - Jerusalem besieged
• Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem - The hexagonal prism and other sources
• Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem - Sennacherib's end

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The Balfour Declaration was a letter dated November 2, 1917 from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour on behalf of the British government, to Lord Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, a private Zionist organization. The letter stated the position agreed on at a British Cabinet meeting on October 31, 1917, that the British government supported Zionist plans for a "national home" in Palestine for the Jewish people, and, most ...

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• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Text of the declaration
• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Development
• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Negotiation
• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Footnotes

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Palestine (Hebrew: פלשתינה Palestina , Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn or Falasṭīn, see also Canaan, Eretz Yisrael) is the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east and south. Many different definitions of the region have been used in the past three millennia (see also definitions of Palestine). Palestine - Boundaries and name. According to the Bible, nearly 4,000 years ago, patriach Abraham ...

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• Palestine - Boundaries and name
• Palestine - The 5th century BCE
• Palestine - Roman times
• Palestine - Arab rule
• Palestine - Muslim division into districts
• Palestine - Ottoman rule
• Palestine - The 20th Century
• Palestine - British Mandate
• Palestine - UN Partition
• Palestine - Current status

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As historian E. P. Sanders has observed, of all the religions that existed within the Roman Empire, only two have widespread followings today: Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity, both of which have their origins in Roman-occupied Palestine, both of which claim to be based on the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and the historical experience of the Jewish people. The story of the cultural and historical background of Jesus is the story of a tempestuous time when these two religions first emerged and diverged. According to the Gospels, Jesus ...

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• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - First Temple Era
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Priests and Kings
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Prophets
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - The Second Temple Era
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - The Persian Period
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - The Hellenistic Period
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - The Hasmonean Period
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - The Roman Period
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - After Jesus: The Great Revolt and the Destruction of the Temple
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Jesus in this context
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Overview
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Discussion
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Interpretation of sources
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Reference Sources
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Primary sources
• Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Secondary Sources

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The West Bank is a landlocked territory not recognized as a de jure part of any sovereign country. The West Bank is considered by the United Nations and most countries as currently occupied by Israel, though some Israelis and various other groups prefer to refer to it as "disputed" rather than "occupied" territory. Its borders were defined by the 1948 Arab-Israeli War armistice lines after the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine, when it was captured and annexed by Jordan. From 1948 until 1967 the area was under Jor ...

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• West Bank - Demographics of the West Bank
• West Bank - Cities in the West Bank
• West Bank - Origin of the name
• West Bank - Political terminology
• West Bank - Status
• West Bank - History
• West Bank - Transport and communication
• West Bank - Higher Education

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