The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham (ca. 1800 BCE). Thus, Jews have had continuous presence in the land of Israel for the past 3,300 year...
Israel and Judah co-existed for about two centuries, although they often fought each other. Israel also fought against a non-Jewish kingdom called Moab, which was located largely in modern-day Jordan. A ninth-century B.C. stele created by a Moabite king discusses the conflict between Israel ...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Israeli Humor SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Sarah Blacher Cohen, Editor Israeli Humor THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE CHIZBAT OF THE PALMAH ELLIOTT GRING State University of New York Press Albany Grateful...
The modern day Ancient Near East. Three thousand years later Israel remains a small but strong nation. On the global center stage is a country the size of New Jersey. Since the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt and Caesars of Rome, to the twentieth century threats scattered throughout the Middle Eas...
Israel, History Of, 1 INTRODUCTORY 1. Sources (1) The Old Testament (2) Josephus (3) The Monuments 2. Religious Character of the History I. ORIGINS OF ISRAEL IN PRE-MOSAIC TIMES 1. Original Home 2. Ethnographical Origin 3. Patriarchal Origins and History (1) Patriarchal Conditions--...
ISRAEL, HISTORY OF 1. Sources. The primary source for the history of ancient Israel is, of course, the Bible. The Bible gives more relative space to history than any other sacred book. The Biblical historians and biographers were more concerned with the moral and theological implications of ...
She also spoke of the modern State of Israel as a miracle, something that only someone who lived in Europe before the country was established can understand. “This is our land, mine and my children’s,” she said. “It’s something precious, something extraordinary. But we risk losing it...
In 1516 the land of Israel, known at this time as Palestine, was taken over by the Ottoman Turks, who ruled for four hundred years. In 1799 Napoleon unsuccessfully attempted to take the territory, but did not succeed. The first modern Jewish settlement in Palestine was established in 1870...
The descendants of Abraham were thought to have been enslaved by Egyptians for hundreds of years before they settled in Canaan (approximately in modern-day Israel). Around 1000 BCE, King David ruled the region. His son, Solomon, built the First Temple (Solomon’s Temple) in ancient Jerusalem...
Early Lebanese settlers in America came mostly from Beirut, Mount Hermon, and surrounding regions of present-day Lebanon, a nation located at the extreme eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Syria forms Lebanon's northern and eastern borders. Israel lies directly south of Lebanon, with the Medit...