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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, by F. Winter, 1886. In the collection of the Dorset Museum, Dorchester. "A land without a people for a people without a land" is a widely cited phrase associated with the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Its historicity and significance are a ...
When enumerated separately, one of the seven nations is called Canaanites, while the others are called the Amorites, the Girgashites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Jebusites and the Perizzites. [3] Brian R. Doak argues that the seven nations embody the "symbol(s) of the religious practices Israel should avoid".
Commonwealth Theology derives its name from the Commonwealth of Israel , which describes a commonwealth inhabited by "one new man." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This corporate body with its citizens is understood to represent both a present reality [ 4 ] achieved by Christ's atoning sacrifice and a yet-to-be-realized future united community of believers, [ 5 ...
The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد, translit.: ard al-mi'ad) is Middle Eastern land in the Levant that Abrahamic religions (which include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others) claim God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham (the legendary patriarch in Abrahamic religions) and several more times to his ...
Meir was the first female prime minister of Israel and the first woman to have headed a Middle Eastern state in modern times. [330] Gahal retained its 26 seats, and was the second largest party. In September 1970 King Hussein of Jordan drove the Palestine Liberation Organization out of his country. On 18 September 1970, Syrian tanks invaded ...
Many Jews wanted Israel to be the place where they died, in order to be buried there. The sage Rabbi Anan said "To be buried in Israel is like being buried under the altar." [7] [8] [9] The saying "His land will absolve His people" implies that burial in Israel will cause one to be absolved of all one's sins. [19] [23]
First line: "I've got a mother in Beulah land". UK Blues musician Ian Siegal recorded a song called "Beulah Land" on his album The Picnic Sessions. First line: "Riders of the purple sage". Alternative piano artist Tori Amos wrote a song also entitled "Beulah Land", which was a B-side on her 1998 album From the Choirgirl Hotel. Dennis brown ...
The expression "Land of Israel" is first used in a later book, 1 Samuel 13:19. It is defined in detail in the exilic Book of Ezekiel as a land where both the twelve tribes and the "strangers in (their) midst", can claim inheritance. [20] The name "Israel" first appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name given by God to the patriarch Jacob (Genesis ...