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Picture of the Jacob's Ladder in the original Luther Bibles (of 1534 and also 1545). Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב , romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) is a ladder or staircase leading to heaven that was featured in a dream the biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).
Timnath or Timnah was a Philistine city in Canaan that is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Judges 14 and in connection with Samson.Modern archaeologists identify the ancient site with a tell lying on a flat, alluvial plain, located in the Sorek Valley ca. 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-west of Beit Shemesh, near moshav Tal Shahar in Israel, known in Hebrew as Tel Batash (תל בטש) or Teluliot ...
Asahel. Woodcut of Abner killing Asahel, by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695. Asahel (Hebrew: עשהאל, Ancient Greek: ‘Ασαέλ, Latin Asael) was a military leader under King David and the youngest son of David's sister Zeruiah. [1] Asahel thus was the nephew of David and the younger brother of David's general, Joab, Asahel is mentioned in ...
Tevye is a pious Jewish dairyman living in the Russian Empire, the patriarch of a family including several troublesome daughters. [a] The village of Boyberik, where the stories are set (renamed Anatevka in Fiddler on the Roof), is based on the town of Boyarka, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Boyberik is a suburb of Yehupetz (based on ...
The architecture of Tel Aviv's movie theaters can be seen as a reflection of Israeli architectural history: The first cinema, the Eden, opened in 1914, was an example of the eclectic style that was in vogue at the time, combining European and Arab traditions. The Mugrabi cinema, designed in 1930, was built in art deco style.
Canvas-sided sukkah on a roof, topped with palm branches and bamboo s'chach Sukkah with walls made of cardboard signs in Oakland, California. A sukkah or succah (/ ˈ s ʊ k ə /; Hebrew: סוכה; plural, סוכות sukkot or sukkos or sukkoth, often translated as "booth") is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot.
The Fall of Jericho, as described in the biblical Book of Joshua, was the first military engagement fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest of Canaan. According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, with the priests ...
Coogan argues that the story of Ehud was probably a folk tale of local origin that was edited by the Deuteronomistic historians. [11] The Deuteronomistic historians "incorporated a variety of previously existing sources into their narrative of life in early Israel" [11] and the story of Ehud is one such example of a "previously existing source", [11] that has been edited to include "the ...