Kingdom of Israel

Think about what it would feel like being told you have to wear a particular color due to you being different. Who knew that a simple symbol of over two-thousand years ago could impact today and the way life is? Intertwined equilateral triangles is a common symbol in the Middle East and also North Africa; infact where it supposedly brings good luck. Symbols can represent many things like ideas, concepts, beliefs and feelings; furthermore they may have profound meaning for some, yet no meaning…

Paul Celan is perhaps the greatest German-Jewish poet in the twentieth century. He was born in 1920 in Czernowitz, in the Kingdom of Romania (now a part of Ukraine). He was raised in an educated German-speaking Jewish family. He studied medicine at the age of 18 in France, but left early when the German occupied Austria in 1938. He then changed his course of study to learn Romance languages. When the danger spread all over Europe, he tried to warn his family, but it was too late for them to…

♣ What is the context for the sin (i.e. what is going on that leads up to Saul’s sin?) ϖ Prior to Saul’s sin, the Israelites and Philistines are at war with each other. Saul defeats the Philistines; however, the Philistines muster up 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen along with many other troops. The Israelites become scared and go into hiding. Samuel does not come as he promised and Saul is anxious. ♣ What is Saul’s sin in this chapter? ϖ Saul’s sin in this chapter that he does not wait for…

Spain, Jewish life in America) if this were to be true why did the Jews not disappear and assimilate if they had full equality or at least prosperity? 3. This theory in no way accounts for periods of Jewish independence such as the Davidic kingdom, or modern Israel. In short, this theory does not explain away the reasons for the survival of the Jewish people through the…

Two courses of action, it was argued, were required. First, crypto-Judaism could only be overcome by the introduction of an Inquisition; second, Jewish influence over the conversos could only be overcome by their expulsion. These ideas, adumbrated in works such as Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei, continued to gain ground, and on 27 September 1480 the Catholic Monarchs appointed Inquisitors in Castile who began their work in Seville shortly after (1481). Conversos, often subjected to torture…

be strong it must be in control with as much land as possible. On his journey in the middle east he stumbled upon modern day Jordan where the Jewish people inhabited that land. According to one book, “the greater part of the area belonged to the kingdom of Jordan – is the broken table-land round Jerusalem, roughly corresponding with the territory known in Roman times as Judaea” (Grant, 1973). Alexander passed through modern day Jordan after he overtook the Persian empire he stumbled upon the…

Kings. NIVAC (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996) and The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopaedia of the Bible. An artist impression of King Ahab BIBLICA TEXT Ahab the son of Omri ascended to the throne of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah (1 Kings 16:29) a Ahab reigned over the northern Kingdom for twenty-two years with his capital in Samaria. He married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians…

of history, Israel and Judah have been thought of as a single cultural entity with occasional political differences. That is, they both stemmed from one kingdom, called Israel, and remained culturally connected after the united Kingdom divided into the northern and southern kingdoms. However, historians are now beginning to study Israel and Judah as both separate kingdoms and separate cultures. Although they do share many traditions, it has become clear that studying these two kingdoms…

Hebrew) or the Beta Israel community, have a complicated, controversial, religious history. There are several theories as to the history of the Beta Israel community, the first being that the Beta Israel are the descendants of the entourage that accompanied Menelik 1, son of King Solomon and Queen Shiba. The second that they are descendants of the Jews who left the conquered Kingdom of Judah in Egypt after the destruction of the First Temple in 586. The third is that the Beta Israel were from…

King Manasseh in 2 Chronicles 33:1-20 is a story of repentance. Manasseh ruled for 55 long years and he started his reign at twelve years old. The initial ten years of his rule was conceivably a cogency with his father, Hezekiah. Though Manasseh had the longest tenure as king of Judah, the bible reflects on Manasseh and his devotion. He is both a bad guy and a good guy but also a man of repentance. It is clear that Manasseh headed people of Judah far from love of the LORD (2 Chronicles 33:9).…