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Tel Motza or Tel Moẓa [1] is an archaeological site in Motza, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.It includes the remains of a large Neolithic settlement dated to around 8600–8200 BCE, and Iron Age Israelite settlement dating to around 1000 to 500 BCE and identified with the biblical Mozah mentioned in the Book of Joshua.
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Tel Arad (Hebrew: תל ערד) or Tell 'Arad (Arabic: تل عراد, romanized: Tall ʿArād) is an archaeological tell, or mound, located west of the Dead Sea, about 10 kilometres (6 miles) west of the modern Israeli city of Arad in an area surrounded by mountain ridges which is known as the Arad Plain.
The New Israelite Temple Society (German: Neuer Israelitischer Tempelverein in Hamburg) was founded on 11 December 1817 and 65 heads of families joined the new congregation. [3] One of the pioneers of the synagogue reform was Israel Jacobson (1768–1828). In 1810 he had founded a prayerhouse, adjacent to the modern school he ran, in Seesen.
The Israelite temple at Tel Arad in Judah, 10th to 8th/7th century BCE [123] and possibly dedicated to Yahweh [124] and Asherah. [125] The Jewish temple at Elephantine in Egypt, already standing in 525 BCE [126] The Israelite temple at Tel Motza, c. 750 BCE discovered in 2012 a few kilometres west of Jerusalem.
The earliest known Israelite place of worship is a 12th-century open-air altar in the hills of Samaria featuring a bronze bull reminiscent of the Canaanite El-bull. [18] Early Israel was a society of rural villages, but in time urban centers grew up and society became more structured and complex. [23]
The history of the Israelite people can be divided into these categories, according to the Hebrew Bible: [58] Pre-Monarchic Period (unknown to c. 1050 BCE) The Israelites were named after their ancestor, Jacob/Israel, who was the grandson of Abraham.
The English word tabernacle derives from the Latin tabernāculum (meaning "tent" or "hut"), which in ancient Roman religion was a ritual structure. [3] [4] [5] The Hebrew word mishkan implies "dwell", "rest", or "to live in". [6] [7] In Greek, including the Septuagint, the Hebrew is translated σκηνή , itself a Semitic loanword meaning ...