Tribe of Manasseh

The first five books revealed by God thru Moses or Musa and the book of Psalms by King David (a descendant from Judah tribe) are in all three religions sacred text. The first five books are – Genesis (Hebrew, Bereshit), Exodus (Hebrew, Shemot), Leviticus (Hebrew, Vayikra), Numbers (Hebrew, Bamidbar), Deuteronomy (Hebrew, D’varim). Genesis is the creation story that all…

narrative explained how the conquered land was allocated amongst the twelve tribes of Israel. This was followed by the creation of cities of refuge and the allocation of Levitical cities. Finally, the Book concluded with Joshua’s farewell exhortation to Israel at Shechem. 1. Allocation of the Land (Joshua 13-19) With the completion of the military campaigns, Joshua set himself to the task of allocating the land to the twelve tribes. While it was recorded in the Book of Joshua that the land…

) David is Anointed as Israel’s King (1003 BC) 1 Samuel 16:1-13 God rebukes Samuel for continuing to mourn for Saul. He was not to be pitied. God had dealt with him justly. Samuel is then commanded to go to a man named Jesse in Bethlehem and to anoint one of his sons as Israel’s next king. 2 Samuel. Saul was the kind of man Israel wanted for its king. The oldest son of Jesse was probably something like Saul in terms of age, height, and strength. Saul was a man who physically…

this exact date is never given by the author of the Book of Judges, where Gideon appears in the Bible, scholars have narrowed these dates down through proven archeological evidence. (Rudd, 2016). Gideon was from the tribe of Manasseh and in particular from Ophrah which was a city in Manasseh and situated between Mt. Tabor and Mt. Gilboa. At the time of Gideon, The Israelites had turned from God and had been overcome by Midianites in the area, with oppressive rule and demanding that the…

Gei ben-Hinnom which means Valley of Son of Hinnom. Nobody really knows who Hinnom or his son were but the name stuck through the ages. The earliest mention of the valley of Hinnom is in the Book of Joshua 15:8, where the boundary line between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin is described as passing along the bed of the ravine. "Then the border went up the valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain…

me in my life as a follower of Christ and I desired to have all the help I could get. Though I did not understand it at the time, I realized that I would also find my lineage from the blessing. I anticipated that I would find out which one of the tribes of Israel from whence I…

believed the true Hebrew religion was preserved by the Israelites who were able to remain in their land during the exile while those in Babylon altered the Torah. Samaritans claim descent from the Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh - the two sons of Joseph - as well as from the priestly tribe of Levi. Recent DNA testing confirms their Hebrew ancestry. The main division between Jews and Samaritans has always been the location…

In Theology we had to do a research project on one of the Synoptic Gospels. I chose to do a research paper on the infancy narrative in Matthew’s Gospel. The term infancy narrative is used described the birth and early life of Jesus the Messiah. The infancy narrative in Matthew’s Gospel is broken into many parts; including: the genealogy of Jesus, the conception and birth of Jesus, the visit of the Magi, the flight to Egypt and massacre of the infants, and the return from Egypt. I will be…

According to Clines, the theme of the Pentateuch is: The theme of the Pentateuch is the partial fulfilment – which implies also the partial non-fulfilment – of the promise to blessing of the patriarchs. The promise or blessing is both the divine initiative in a world where human initiatives always lead to disaster, and are an affirmation of the primal divine intentions for humanity. The promise has three elements: posterity, divine human relationship, and land. The posterity-element is…

In 1992, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham addressed the need for greater voice in African American women’s history, naming the limits of white feminist scholarship and theory in its appeal to homogeneous conceptions of “womanhood,” “woman’s culture,” and “patriarchal oppression of women.” Diagnosing how this narrow practice of the field had resulted in an extensive backgrounding of race in the crossings of gender, sexuality, and class, Higginbotham’s critical intervention not only entailed the…