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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.
In the Bible, the twelve tribes of Israel are sons of a man called Jacob or Israel, as Edom or Esau is the brother of Jacob, and Ishmael and Isaac are the sons of Abraham. Elam and Ashur, names of two ancient nations, are sons of a man called Shem.
It is likely that Shalmaneser captured the city since both the Babylonian Chronicles and the Hebrew Bible viewed the fall of Israel as the signature event of his reign. [66] The Assyrian deportations became the basis for the Jewish idea of the Ten Lost Tribes. Foreign groups were settled by the Assyrians in the territories of the fallen kingdom ...
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 ...
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867). The story of the Exodus is told in the first half of Exodus, with the remainder recounting the 1st year in the wilderness, and followed by a narrative of 39 more years in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the first five books of the Bible (also called the Torah or Pentateuch). [10]
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According to the Bible, he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus. The Hebrew Bible identifies Joshua as one of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. In Numbers 13:1 and after the death of Moses, he led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated lands to the tribes.
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