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  2. Hebrews - Wikipedia

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    By the time of the Roman Empire, the term Hebraios (Greek: Ἑβραῖος) could refer to the Jews in general (as Strong's Hebrew Dictionary puts it: "any of the Jewish Nation ") [ 8 ] or, at other times, specifically to those Jews who lived in Judea, which was a Roman province from 6 CE to 135 CE. However, at the time of early Christianity ...

  3. History of ancient Israel and Judah - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan 's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.

  4. List of Jewish leaders in the Land of Israel - Wikipedia

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    King Jotham (II Kings 15:32) King Ahaz (II Kings 16:1) – under whose reign, Hoshea ruled as the last king of Israel. King Hezekiah (II Kings 18:1) – under his reign, the Assyrian Empire conquered and destroyed the northern kingdom 722 BCE leaving only the southern kingdom of Judah. King Manasseh (II Kings 20:21)

  5. Timeline of Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.

  6. Kingdom of Judah - Wikipedia

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    c. 930 BCE[1] • Siege of Jerusalem. c. 587 BCE. Succeeded by. Yehud (Babylonian province) The Kingdom of Judah[a] was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands to the west of the Dead Sea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. [3] It was ruled by the Davidic line for four centuries. [4]

  7. Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) - Wikipedia

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    Jordan. Lebanon. Syria. According to the Deuteronomistic history in the Hebrew Bible, a United Monarchy or United Kingdom of Israel[7] existed under the reigns of Saul, Ish-bosheth, David, and Solomon, encompassing the territories of both the later kingdoms of Judah and Israel. [8][9][10] Whether the United Monarchy existed—and, if so, to ...

  8. List of Jewish states and dynasties - Wikipedia

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    Yehud Medinata, c. 539–332 BCE[4] Hasmonean dynasty, c. 140–37 BCE[5] Herodian dynasty, 47 BCE – 100 CE. Judean provisional government, 66–68 CE. Bar Kokhba Jewish state, 132–135 CE. State of Israel, 1948 CE–present [6]

  9. Israelites - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, "Israelite", broadly speaking, refers to a lay member of the Jewish ethnoreligious group, as opposed to the priestly orders of Kohanim and Levites. In legal texts, such as the Mishnah and Gemara, ישראלי (Yisraeli), or Israelite, is used to describe Jews instead of יהודי (Yehudi), or Jew. In Samaritanism, Samaritans are ...