The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...

There is debate among academics whether the encounter between Josiah and Necho at Megiddo in 609 B.C. was actually a battle, or if Necho had merely executed his vassal Josiah there—in other words, ...

After Solomon’s death, the ancient Kingdom of Israel split into two realms. The northern half was called Israel and the ...

The first major tragedy that the Jews of this era experienced was the division of the country into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern ... remaining tribes (Judah, Benjamin, the ...

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

When the Assyrian Empire came along, Gaza went through the same turmoil as Israel and Judah and was under the same threat.

Manasseh was the longest-reigning king of Israel or Judah, and he was also arguably the most evil. Deuteronomy speaks of the ...

That’s an interesting thing to contemplate, especially since David was from the southern kingdom of Judah, and at the time of Hosea’s writing Israel and Judah were not operating in unity. It should ...

Gaza idea is nonsense. Hamas is unacceptable. Netanyahu repudiates everything but war. A better path forward still exists—and ...