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Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot and his daughters fleeing burning Sodom by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hans Rottenhammer, 1597. In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah (/ ˈsɒdəm /; / ɡəˈmɒrə /) were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. [1] Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in its theme of God's anger provoked ...
From Charles Foster, The Story of the Bible, 1884. The cities of refuge (Hebrew: ערי המקלט ‘ārê ha-miqlāṭ) were six Levitical towns in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of accidental manslaughter could claim the right of asylum. Maimonides, invoking talmudic literature, expands the city of ...
Carmel (biblical settlement) Carmel was an ancient Israelite town in Judea, lying about 11.2 kilometres (7.0 mi) from Hebron, on the southeastern frontier of Mount Hebron. [1][2] According to the Bible, Saul erected a victory monument in Carmel to memorialize his triumph over Amalek. [3] The site is generally identified with the Arab village of ...
Samaria (Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן Šōmrōn; Akkadian: 𒊓𒈨𒊑𒈾 Samerina; Greek: Σαμάρεια Samareia; Arabic: السامرة as-Sāmira) was the capital city of the Kingdom of Israel between c. 880 BCE and c. 720 BCE. [1][2] It is the namesake of Samaria, a historical region bounded by Judea to the south and by Galilee to the north.
Gibeon. Gibeon (Hebrew: גִּבְעוֹן, romanized: Giḇəʻōn; Greek: Γαβαων, translit. Gabaōn) [1] was a Canaanite and later an Israelite city, which was located north of Jerusalem. According to Joshua 11:19, the pre-Israelite-conquest inhabitants, the Gibeonites, were Hivites; according to 2 Samuel 21:2, they were Amorites.
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, a book by Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Neil Asher Silberman, an archaeologist, historian and contributing editor to Archaeology Magazine published in January 2001 by Simon & Schuster using its Free Press imprint [1] [2] and reprinted in June 2002 using ...
Israel portal. v. t. e. Jerusalem is one of the world's oldest cities, with a history spanning over 5,000 years. Its origins trace back to around 3000 BCE, with the first settlement near the Gihon Spring. The city is first mentioned in Egyptian execration texts around 2000 BCE as "Rusalimum."
Nimrod (/ ˈnɪmrɒd /; [1] Hebrew: נִמְרוֹד, Modern: Nīmrōd, Tiberian: Nīmrōḏ; Classical Syriac: ܢܡܪܘܕ; Arabic: نُمْرُود, romanized: Numrūd) is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles. The son of Cush and therefore the great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in the ...