The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel ... land, God told the Israelites in Judges 1:1 that the tribe of Judah ...

Joseph sees kingship; he sees how what he learned and dreamed in his father’s home will touch favorably the entire world: he ...

TO say otherwise is a perverse form of historical revisionism. To wish otherwise is to wish for a counterfactual. Facts have ...

After the Maccabean victory, three major “parties” dominated public life in Judah ... Like the Hasmonean kingdom, which lasted seventy-six years, we just celebrated Israel’s seventy-sixth ...

In 587, Nebuchadnezzar conquered the kingdom of Judah and carried its leaders off to Babylon ... Footnotes : [1] Canaan was an ancient land in what is now Palestine/Israel where many peoples lived, ...

A long-forgotten theory, unmentioned in the latest debate over Christopher Columbus’ Jewish origins, is that with the ...

First, how could the Mashiach be the product of a problematic union? Surely his ancestry has to be unblemished!

Judah steps forward in the biblical portion of Vayyiggash, Genesis 44:18-47:31, which means “steps forward.” Judah stepped forward near Joseph  to defend his younger brother Benjamin, whom Joseph was ...

When King Solomon died, the Land of Israel split into two kingdoms—the northern kingdom (Israel) and the southern kingdom (Judah). Two tribes, Benjamin and Judah, made up the southern kingdom ...

Despite being outnumbered, Judah was ... to liberate the land from Seleucid control, creating the Hasmonean Dynasty and creating the first independent Jewish state since the Kingdom of Judah's ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary ...