Palestinian history had existed in an uninterrupted fashion long before the arrival of European Jewish colonists in the late nineteenth century. Sadly, that history barely features in general works on modern Palestine. Non-specialised European narratives typically begin with a biblical account of Jewish...
The Israel Palestine conflict is one of the oldest and persisting conflicts in the world. Now and then, the situation escalates to deadly heights causing deaths and destruction in the region. How did the Israel-Palestine conflict start? What is the history of Palestine and Israel? This ...
Canaan (Palestine), Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the Zagros mountains located on the westernmost edge of Iran. It was here that the cultures and influences of three continents - Africa, Asia, and Europe - converged. Each left its imprint on the history of ...
The State of Israel is the onlyJewishnation in the modern period, and the region that now falls within its borders has a lengthy and rich history that dates from prebiblical times. The area was a part of the Roman Empire and, later, theByzantine Empirebefore falling under the control of ...
ModernElatis situated just west of the ruins of the biblical Elath (now in Jordan). In 1 Kings 9 it is told that KingSolomon’sships sailed to the land of Ophir fromEzion-Geber“near Elath,” bringing back acargoof gold. The American archaeologist Nelson Glueck, who excavated the site ...
The term "ancient Israel" is used by scholars to refer to the tribes, kingdoms and dynasties formed by ancient Jewish people in the Levant (an area that encompasses modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria). Scholars draw mainly on three sources to reconstruct the history of ...
The modern Hebrew language was designed by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a Lithuanian Jew who moved to Palestine in the 1880s. Previously, biblical Hebrew had been the language of prayer, whereas the vernacular of most Jews was Yiddish (Ladino for Spanish and Portuguese Jews). David Ben-Gurion's ...
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 ...
The subsequent history of the two kingdoms was productive, with but slight exceptions, of further estrangement. II. Extent and Resources of the Kingdom of Israel. The area of Palestine, even at its utmost extent under Solomon, was very circumscribed. In its geographical relations it certainly ...
He was a Levite, a Nazarite, prophet and judge at a critical time in Biblical history. God used him to shape the future of the kingdom. Israel clamored for a king under Samuel’s rule as a judge. "The truly successful pattern of government for Israel was a delicate balance—not a ...