To understand these anomalies in later lists, we must ask: How were the twelve tribes of Israel formed? Clarity on that issue will guide us in recognizing differences in later lists that claim to ...

Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he was leaving Padn-Aram and blessed him. Jacob produced twelve sons, each of whom became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Ancient Palestine was occupied by several different nations throughout its history. What do we know about them?

The ancient Israelites (as English translations of the Bible call the Yisraelim, or descendants of Jacob aka Israel), were organized into 12 tribes. Ten were named after sons of Jacob, and two ...

Proponents of the theory that the Celts are descended from one of the ten lost tribes ... Israel, the tribe of Dan, in historical essays and elsewhere point to various parallels between Irish and ...

They trace their descent 127 generations in Israel from the original 12 Tribes. Pigeonholed by Gospel ... The Samaritan Torah is written in a different ancient Semitic script from the Jewish ...

Eliezer Meir Seidel's bakery has become a research institute for bread and other meal offerings from the Temple period.The ...

at the time of the Assyrian exile of the ten tribes from Israel. The holy Japanese shinto temple strongly recalls the ancient holy Isrealite temple, which housed a holy of holies section and ...