Reports that a new generation of archaeologists working in Israel has come to challenge the scriptural account in the Book of Joshua. The religious view that the Israelites drove out the Canaanites in a divinely-directed battle at Jericho; The new view that all the combatants were Canaanites...
The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy, and the Levites and the...
The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give ...
The Hebrew term "גֵּר" (ger) refers to a sojourner or alien, someone living among the Israelites but not native-born. This status often came with certain vulnerabilities and a lack of full rights, reflecting the broader biblical theme of God's concern for the foreigner and the ...
Let’s first look at what the Bible has to say about Israel. God’s plan was that Israel would become a “multitude” of peoples, meaning that a multitude of ethnic groups would seek to join themselves to the community of Israelites. Now YHVH had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy...
the Israelites’ lack of faithfulness. The Assyrians were in turn punished by God for their brutal aggression, leading to the destruction of their empire. Both Jews and Christians have come to see the history of Assyria and Israel as a story of how God keeps his word and punishes the ...
Samaritan, member of a community, now nearly extinct, that claims to be related by blood to those Israelites of ancient Samaria who were not deported by the
The Israelites, both from the North and the South, will be as countless as the sand on the seashore and will no longer bear the designation of“not my people.”Instead, they will be called“sons of the living God.”The division that arose between Judah and Israel during the reigns of ...
This last is the only place in all these books where there is the faintest allusion to any legislation left to the Israelites by Moses; and this reference does not make it clear whether the “commandments” referred to were written or oral. The word “law” is not found in these four bo...
IN THE BLACK CHURCH WE HAVE LOVED AND leaned on Moses, because he brought the enslaved Israelites out of Egypt. As enslaved and oppressed people, we have identified with him so completely that we have adopted his God. But here is another look at ...