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The twelve tribes of Israel are referred to in the New Testament. In the gospels of Matthew and Luke , Jesus anticipates that in the Kingdom of God his disciples will "sit on [twelve] thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel". The Epistle of James addresses his audience as "the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad".
The tribes were through his twelve sons through his wives, Leah and Rachel, and his concubines, Bilhah and Zilpah. In modern scholarship, there is skepticism as to whether there ever were twelve Israelite tribes, with the use of the number 12 thought more likely to signify a symbolic tradition as part of a national founding myth .
Map of the twelve tribes of Israel before the move of Dan to the north, based on the Book of Joshua. The Israelites [a] were a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group [3] [4] consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age. [5] [6] [7]
AlamyIn 1644 Antonio Montezinos, a Portuguese traveler originally known as Aharon Levi, returned to Amsterdam with an astonishing story about the people he had encountered in the proverbial depths ...
The Anti-Defamation League has written that the "12 Tribes of Israel" website, which is maintained by a Black Hebrew group, promotes Black supremacy. [88] As of December 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center "lists 144 Black Hebrew Israelite organizations as black separatist hate groups because of their antisemitic and anti-white beliefs". [22]
A Twelve Tribes dance. The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, [5] the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, [6] the Messianic Communities, [6] and the Community Apostolic Order, [7] is a movement that is defined as either a cult [14] or a new religious movement.
The Twelve Tribes of Israel is a Rastafari religious group and one of the Mansions of Rastafari.Its headquarters is on Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The group was formed in 1968 by Vernon Carrington, who was known to the organisation as "Prophet Gad". [1]
Mansions of Rastafari is an umbrella term for the various groups of the Rastafari movement.Such groups include the Bobo Ashanti, the Niyabinghi, the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and several smaller groups, including African Unity, Covenant Rastafari, Messianic Dreads, SeeGold Empire, and the Selassian Church. [1]