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  2. History of ancient Israel and Judah - Wikipedia

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    This "Sir'lit" is most often interpreted as "Israel". At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Aram Damascus in the east for control of Gilead; [45] the Mesha Stele (c. 830 BCE), left by a king of Moab, celebrates ...

  3. Historical background of the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] They look at Second Temple Judaism, the tensions, trends, and changes in the region under the influence of Hellenism and the Roman occupation, and the Jewish factions of the time, seeing Jesus as a Jew in this environment; and the written New Testament as arising from a period of oral gospel traditions after his death.

  4. Nguyen - Wikipedia

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    Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen. Nguyen was the seventh most common family name in Australia in 2006 [8] (second only to Smith in Melbourne phone books [9]), and the 54th most common in France. [10] It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the ...

  5. History of Israel - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Assyrian siege of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    Although Judah was a vassal of Assyria during this time and paid an annual tribute to the powerful empire, it was the most important state between Assyria and Egypt. [ 1 ] When Hezekiah became king of Judah , he initiated widespread religious changes, including the breaking of religious idols.

  7. Historicity of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    We do not have evidence for the existence of kings named Saul, David or Solomon; nor do we have evidence for any temple at Jerusalem in this early period. What we do know of Israel and Judah of the tenth century does not allow us to interpret this lack of evidence as a gap in our knowledge and information about the past, a result merely of the ...

  8. Timeline of Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    Reign of King Solomon over the ancient Kingdom of Israel. After his death, the kingdom was divided into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah: King Solomon by Simeon Solomon: 960: Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem completed 931: Split between Northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and the Southern Kingdom of Judah: 931-913

  9. Kenite hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The possibility has also been entertained that the biblical version of the history of early humanity has preserved, in the story of Cain and his line (Gen. 4:1-24), an echo of the role of the Kenites in the early history of Israel. In this view, the name of the Kenite tribe is held to derive from Cain's name. The Kenites, like Cain, were nomadic.