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Map of the twelve tribes of Israel (before the move of Dan to the north), based on the Book of Joshua. The Israelites (/ ˈ ɪ z r ə l aɪ t s,-r i ə-/; [1] [2] Hebrew: בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל , Bənēy Yīsrāʾēl, transl. 'Children of Israel') were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.
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The twelve sons form the basis for the twelve tribes of Israel, listed in the order from oldest to youngest: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. Jacob was known to display favoritism among his children, particularly for Joseph and Benjamin, the sons of his favorite wife, Rachel, and ...
The Exodus (Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt'[a]) is the founding myth [b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). The narrative of the Exodus describes a history of Egyptian bondage ...
Evangelical scholar Richard Hess, writing on the Denver Journal, praised Dever for his defence of the historicity of the Bible from the Book of Judges onward and for rejecting Israel Finkelstein's Low Chronology theories, but criticized him for his denial of the historical value of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua. Despite this, Hess ...
v. t. e. The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan 's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
Website. theisraelbible.com. The Israel Bible is a bilingual English-Hebrew version of the Hebrew Bible, edited by Rabbi Tuly Weisz and published in June 2018, for the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. [1][2] It contains the full text of the Hebrew Bible along with scholarly introductions to each book of the Bible and ...
Book of Joshua. Early 4th-century CE manuscript of Joshua from Egypt, in Coptic translation. ; [1] Greek: Ιησούς του Ναυή; Latin: Liber Iosue) is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile. [2 ...