The Kingdom of God as a Reality : Israel in the Time of the JudgesTownsend, Theodore P
during the time of the Judges in Israel. The writing on the stele is in hieroglyphs and very clearly mentions the name of Israel on it. Israel was considered by the Pharaoh of Egypt important enough to mention as a significant victory. The Hebrews had conquered the land of Canaan around 14...
Judges gives us a picture of the dark ages in Hebrew history after the death of Joshua. There was no strong central government in Israel after his death. There was however, the unifying force of their faith in Yahweh. It was a theocracy form of government with the LORD God their king. ...
This period of apostasy is reminiscent of the time of the Judges, where "everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25). The absence of the true God in their lives led to moral and social chaos, as seen in the repeated cycles of sin and redemption throughout Israel's ...
The Book of Judges reports a number of such instances of the subjection of Israel, which did not extend over the whole land, and in part occurred in different sections of the country at the same time. Judah and Simeon, the two tribes in the south, as a rule took no part in these ...
Despite being sworn in only three months ago, the new government is rushing judicial reforms through the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. These controversial proposals would effectively strengthen political control over the appointments of judges, including those in the Supreme Court, while diminishing th...
And since, even as it was, a good deal of superstition had continued to survive among the people, there came into existence, in the period of the Judges, a type of popular religion that was tinged by a pronounced heathenism and had but little in common with theocratical principles of ...
"It's time to end the double standards," Satterthwaite said. Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, cited high civilian casualties and attacks on UN personnel as evidence of systemic violations by Israel, facilitated ...
Barnes' Notes on the Bible The gods of Syria - Or "Aram." In the times of the Judges the various tribes of Aramites, or Syrians, were not compacted into one state, nor were they until after the time of Solomon. The national gods of these various Aramean tribes were probably the sam...
The judges were of different tribes and were active in different areas, and some of them must have been contemporaneous. Also some of the oppressions by other nations in different areas may have been contemporaneous. Therefore, if the years of the judgeships and of the oppressions are added,...