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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]
The name Israel first appears in the stele of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BC, "Israel is laid waste and his seed is not." [ 23 ] This "Israel" was a cultural and probably political entity of the central highlands, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony , but an ethnic group ...
The Bible portrays Israel and Judah as the successors of an earlier United Kingdom of Israel, although its historicity is disputed. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Historians and archaeologists agree that the northern Kingdom of Israel existed from ca. 900 BCE [ 1 ] : 169–195 [ 33 ] and that the Kingdom of Judah existed from ca. 700 BCE. [ 2 ]
Meir was the first female prime minister of Israel and the first woman to have headed a Middle Eastern state in modern times. [331] 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 ...
Shelah HaKadosh writes his most famous work after emigrating to the Land of Israel. 1623 First time separate (Va'ad) Jewish Sejm for Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1626–1676 False Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. 1627 Kingdom of Beta Israel in what is now modern day Ethiopia collapses and loses autonomy. 1633
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] Jews are named after Judah, and primarily descend from people who lived in the region. [5] [6] [7]
The Greek term for diaspora (διασπορά) also appears three times in the New Testament, where it refers to the scattering of Israel, i.e., the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel as opposed to the Southern Kingdom of Judah, although James (1:1) refers to the scattering of all twelve tribes.
Described by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld as "the first non-Ptolemaic map of a definite country" [66] The monarchic state was divided into two states, Israel and Judah, due to civil and religious disputes. Eventually, Israel and Judah met their demise after the Assyrian and Babylonian invasions respectively.