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The Kingdom of Judah was located in the Judean Mountains, stretching from Jerusalem to Hebron and into the Negev Desert.The central ridge, ranging from forested and shrubland-covered mountains gently sloping towards the hills of the Shephelah in the west, to the dry and arid landscapes of the Judaean Desert descending into the Jordan Valley to the east, formed the kingdom's core.
The name "Israel" first appears in the Merneptah Stele c. 1208 BCE: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more." [25] This "Israel" was a cultural and probably political entity, well enough established for the Egyptians to perceive it as a possible challenge, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state. [26]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (February 2025) Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hypothesized Israelite kingdom in the Southern Levant "United Monarchy" redirects here. For the union of monarchies under a single sovereign, see Personal union. For other uses, see Kingdom of Israel. Kingdom of Israel 𐤉𐤔𐤓𐤀𐤋 c. 1047 BCE –930 BCE Land of Israel Shewing the ...
The American naval officer William F. Lynch was the first to identify Tell el-Qadi as the site of the ancient city of Dan in 1849. [11] Three years later, Edward Robinson made the same identification, [12] and this identification is now securely accepted. [2] Tel Dan is the modern Israeli name for the site, based on the original Biblical name. [4]
This is a list of yeshivas, midrashas, and Hebrew schools in Israel and the West Bank. In Orthodox Judaism a yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבה) is an educational institution where men can study the Torah, the Talmud, and develop their character. A yeshiva usually is led by a rabbi called a rosh yeshiva (head of the yeshiva).
Yehuda ben Meir, also known as Yehudah Leontin, was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE. Yehuda was the principal teacher of Gershom ben Judah , and his work was highly influential on the later writings of Rashi .
Ruins of the royal palace of the Omiride dynasty in the city of Samaria, which was the capital of Israel from 880 BCE to 720 BCE.. According to Israel Finkelstein, Shoshenq I's campaign in the second half of the 10th century BCE collapsed the early polity of Gibeon in central highlands, and made possible the beginning of the Northern Kingdom, with its capital at Shechem, [10] [11] around 931 BCE.