In Hebrew, eretz means land, as in Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel). Over 700 times in the Tanakh (Old Testament), eretz is translated as earth. Eretz can also refer to the nations of the earth, regions, cities, ground, soil, even the underworld. It can also mean world to describe ...
Along with his brother Aaron, Moses approaches the reigning pharaoh (who is unnamed in the biblical version of the story) several times, explaining that the Hebrew God has requested a three-day leave for his people so that they may celebrate a feast in the wilderness. ...
These cover the region from Bir es Seba (present day Be'er Sheva, Israel) in the south to Tyre (southern Lebanon) in the north and from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west (Fig. 1). Consistent study of the PEF maps has begun in the 20th century and...
Byline: Jay Bushinsky, THE WASHINGTON TIMESTEL AVIV -- A dwindling water supply in the Sea of Galilee is pushing Israel to increase its use of desalination plants, with plans to expand two facilities and build two more by 2010. The biblical body of water is 16.2 feet below its lower ...
Head Of State: President:Isaac Herzog 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 Empi...
procreation and by stigmatizing persons who failed to produce children. Many of these pronatalist motives were incorporated into religious dogma and mythology, as in the biblical injunction to “be fruitful and multiply, and populate the earth,” the Hindu laws of Manu, and the writings of ...
Rivervalley on the west. The area was part of extreme southwesternSyriauntil 1967, when it came underIsraelimilitary occupation, and in December 1981Israelunilaterallyannexedthe part of the Golan it held. The area’s name is from the biblical city of refuge Golan inBashan(Deuteronomy 4:43;...
larger wave of refugees arrived after theSix-Day Warof 1967, when Jordan lost all its territories west of theJordan RivertoIsrael. Political conflict between the Jordanian government and rebellious Palestinian guerrillas erupted into open civil war in 1970 in the streets of Amman; although the gove...
The West Bank is an area of the former British-mandated (1920–47) territory of Palestine west of the Jordan River, claimed from 1949 to 1988 as part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but occupied from 1967 by Israel. The territory, excluding East Jerus
(possibly including Boniface) in 751 and then by the pope in 754. This rite, originated by the biblical kings of Israel, had already been adopted by the Visigoths; it gave Christian legitimacy to royal authority because it reinforced the religious character of the monarchy and signified the ...