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  1. Ammon: Ammon or Ammonites , also referred to in the Bible as the "children of Ammon," were a people (also known from Assyrian and other...
  2. Ancient Judaism (book): Ancient Judaism, also known as Ancient Palestine: Society and Religion, is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economis...
  3. Asherah: Asherah (from Hebrew ), generally taken as identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat (more accurately transcribed as Airat), w...
  4. Asherah pole: An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Ashe...
  5. Asor: The asore was a musical instrument "of ten strings" mentioned in the Bible, about which authors are not agreed. ...
  6. Assyrian Captivity of Israel: The Northern Kingdom of Israel was extorted, invaded, conquered, and taken captive primarily by the Neo-Assyrian monarchs, Tigla...
  7. Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem: In 721 BCE, the Assyrian army captured the Israelite capital at Samaria and carried away the citizens of the northern kingdom in...
  8. Av Beit Din: Av Beit Din, Av Beis Din, or Av Beth Din . was the second-highest ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Commonwealth...
  9. Babylonian captivity: The Babylonian captivity, Babylonian exile, is the name typically given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient...
  10. Bamoth-Baal: Bamoth-Baal was an elevated point in the land of Moab (Num. xxii. 41), which was allotted to the Tribe of Reuben (Josh. xiii. 17...
  11. Baruch ben Neriah: Baruch ben Neriah (c. 6th century BCE) was the scribe, disciple, secretary, and devoted friend of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah....
  12. Bath (volume): A bath is a unit of volume used by ancient Hebrews, equal to one tenth of a homer. 1 bath equals 22 litres or 22 dm3. ...
  13. Battle of Megiddo (609 BC): This Battle of Megiddo is recorded as having taken place in 609 BC with Necho II of Egypt leading his army to Carchemish to figh...
  14. Battle of Qarqar: The Battle of Karkar (or Qarqar) was fought in 853 BC when the army of Assyria, led by king Shalmaneser III, encountered an alli...
  15. Bethel: Bethel , also written as Beth El or Beth-El, meaning "House of God" (in general), or "House of (the specific god named) El", was...
  16. Bethulia: Bethulia, in Greek Betuloua, is a Biblical city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms the subject of t...
  17. Biblical archaeology: For the movement associated with William F. Albright and known as Biblical archaeology, see Biblical archaeology school. For the...
  18. Book of Judith: The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christi...
  19. Canaan Dog: The Canaan Dog is the national dog breed of Israel. It may have existed in the Middle East for millennia. ...
  20. Cyrus (Bible): Cyrus the Great figures in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) as the patron and deliverer of the Jews. He is mentioned twenty-thre...
  21. Deuteronomic Cycle: The Deuteronomic Cycle is a recurring theme of the Book of Judges in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). The Israelites would turn from t...
  22. Efes Daromi: Efes was a scholar of the 3rd century, secretary to the patriarch Judah I (Gen. R. lxxv. 5), and one of the last tannaim. After ...
  23. Gezer calendar: The Gezer calendar is a tablet of soft limestone inscribed in a paleo-Hebrew script. It is one of the oldest known examples of H...
  24. Government of ancient Israel: The king of ancient Israel was not an absolute monarch. By tradition, the King was required to obey the laws of the Torah, which...
  25. Great Assembly: According to Jewish tradition, the Great Assembly or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah , also known as the Great Synagogue, was an assem...
  26. Hadadezer bar Rehob: Hadadezer ("Hadad helps") the son of Rehob was king of the Aramaean kingdom of Zobah during the early tenth century BCE. Accord...
  27. Hagrite: According to the Bible, the Hagrite tribe (also spelled Hagarite) were a nomadic Arabian tribe descended from Hagar. The Hagrit...
  28. Henotheism: Henotheism (Greek heis theos "one god") is a term coined by Max Muller, to mean devotion to a single god while accepting the ex...
  29. Herodian architecture: Herodian architecture is a style of classical architecture characteristic of the numerous building projects undertaken during th...
  30. History of ancient Israel and Judah: The history of Ancient Israel and Judah is known to us from classical sources including Judaism's Tanakh or Hebrew Bible (known ...
  31. History of pottery in the Southern Levant: The history of pottery in the Southern Levant describes the discovery and cultural development of pottery in the archaeological ...
  32. History of the Jews in the Land of Israel: The History of the Jews in the Land of Israel begins with the ancient Israelites (also known as Hebrews), who settled in the lan...
  33. Israelite Diaspora: Begun in or around the year 720 B.C., a rebellion against the Assyrian Empire broke out, participated in by ancient Syria and th...
  34. Israelite highland settlement: Since the 1970s a number of archaeological field surveys have been undertaken in Israel. As a result, it has been determined th...
  35. Iudaea Province: Kingdom of Judea redirects here. For the 10th-6th century BCE kingdom, see Kingdom of Judah ...
  36. Jarmut: Jarmut or Jarmuth was the name of two sites in Canaan and Ancient Israel: ...
  37. Judea: Judea or Judaea is the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the We...
  38. Judean date palm: The Judean date palm is a cultivar of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). ...
  39. Khirbet Beit Lei: Khirbet Beit Lei is an archaeological site in the Judean lowlands, in Israel. Its name means "Ruin of the House of Lei" in Arabi...
  40. Khirbet Kefireh: Khirbet Kefireh is a modern town just north of Katana, Israel on a hilltop covering about 4-5 acres. It appears in the Survey ...
  41. King's Calendar: The '''King's Calendar''' is an artificial calendar proposed by R. P. BenDedek to organize the chronology of the Bible's Books o...
  42. Kingdom of David: Kingdom of David was a part of the Empire Series of history documentaries for the PBS television network produced by Oregon Publ...
  43. Kingdom of Israel: The Kingdom of Israel was one of the successor states to the older United Monarchy (also often called the 'Kingdom of Israel')...
  44. Kingdom of Judah: Judea is a term used for the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel. ...
  45. List of Biblical figures identified in extra-Biblical sources: List of Biblical figures identified in extra-Biblical sources ...
  46. LMLK seal: LMLK seals were stamped on the handles of large storage jars mostly in and around Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah (c...
  47. Maresha: Tel Maresha , also Marissa, is an antiquity site in Israel's southern lowlands. ...
  48. Merneptah Stele: The Merneptah Stele (also known as the Israel Stele or Victory Stele of Merneptah) is the reverse of a large granite stele origi...
  49. Mesha Stele: The Mesha Stele (popularized in the 19th century as the "Moabite Stone") is a black basalt stone, bearing an inscription by the ...
  50. MMST: MMST redirects here. For the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team, see Metropolitan Medical Strike Team. ...
  51. Nahal Tut: Nahal Tut is an archaeological site excavated along the streambed of the same name in northern Israel's Menashe Heights from Fe...
  52. Nasi: ''For the Arab month by this name, see Nasi (month). Also the Malay/Indonesian word for rice. (e.g. Nasi goreng) ...
  53. Nimat Allah al-Harawi: '''Ni'mat Allah al-Harawi''' (fl.1613-1630) wrote a Persian epic on the history of the Afghans, at the court of the Mughal Emper...
  54. Ostraca House: Ostraca of Samaria are Sixty-four legible ostraca which were found in Samaria. These are written in early Hebrew characters, wh...
  55. Panbabylonism: Panbabylonism is a school of thought within Assyriology and Religious studies that considers the Hebrew Bible and Judaism as dir...
  56. Pharisees: The word Pharisees comes from the Hebrew perushim from parush, meaning "separated" Ernest Klein - Comprehensive Etymologica...
  57. Queen of heaven (Antiquity): Queen of Heaven was a title given to a number of ancient goddesses in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, in particular Isi...
  58. Rephaite: The Rephaites were a grouping of tall peoples mentioned in the Hebrew Bible that lived between the Nile River and the Euphrates...
  59. Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC): The Sack of Jerusalem took place in the 5th year of the reign of Rehoboam, following the death of his father, Solomon. This even...
  60. Samaritan Pentateuch: The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the Pentateuch that is used by the Samaritans. It is written in the Samaritan alphabet,...
  61. Sanhedrin: The Sanhedrin (; , synedrion, "sitting together," hence "assembly" or "council") was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointe...
  62. Seah (volume): Seah is a unit of dry volume of ancient origin used in Halakha (Jewish religious law), which equals one third of an epha, or bat...
  63. Seraiah ben Neriah: Seriah ben Neriah was a Jewish aristocrat of the sixth century BCE. He was the son of Neriah and the brother of Baruch ben Neria...
  64. Shemesh (Canaanite goddess): Shemesh , also Shapesh or Shapshu, was the Canaanite goddess of the sun, daughter of El and Asherah. She is known as "torch of ...
  65. Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC): About 2600 years ago, Jerusalem, the sacred city of the Jews, was still not a widespread metropolis as it is today. Protected in...
  66. Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC): In 601 BC, in the fourth year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, unsuccessfully attempted to invade Egypt and was...
  67. Siloam: * For the Arab village and neighborhood, see Silwan ...
  68. Siloam inscription: The Siloam (Shiloach) inscription or Silwan inscription (in reference to Jerusalem neighborhood called Silwan) is a passage of i...
  69. Solomon's Temple: '''Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple''', was, according to the Bible, the first temple of the ancient religion of...
  70. Tel Batash: Tel Batash is a tell within which was found archaeological remains of biblical Timnah. The tell is located in the Sorek Valley ...
  71. Tell el-Hesi: Tell el-Hesi is an archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie i...
  72. The Hebrew Goddess: The Hebrew Goddess (ISBN 0-8143-2271-9) is a 1967 book by Jewish historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai. In this book, Patai...
  73. Tirzah: Tirzah is a Hebrew word meaning "she is my delight." In the Bible it is the name of a town in Israel and of a woman. ...
  74. Tower of Siloam: The tower of Siloam was an ancient tower in Siloam in south Jerusalem. The tower fell during the time of Jesus, killing 18 peopl...
  75. Tribal allotments of Israel: According to the Book of Joshua, Joshua divided the newly conquered land of Canaan into parcels, and assigned them to the Tribes...
  76. Tyropoeon Valley: Tyropoeon Valley is the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine, in the Old City of Jerusalem, whi...
  77. United Monarchy: The United Monarchy (United Kingdom of Israel and Judah) refers to a period in the traditional account of the history of ancient...
  78. Zugot: Zugot ((tquphath) hazZughoth) refers to the period during the time of the Second Temple (515 BCE - 70 CE), in which the spiritu...

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