Much of modern-day Jordan was Israelite. The Israelites also inhabited Lebanon up to Sidon. Of the non-Jewish tribes there were the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites Philistines, Amalek, and Phoenicians.

She calls him Judah, based on the Hebrew ... the New Testament book Revelations 19:11-16 accepts this idea. In Revelation 5, Jesus is the long-awaited lion of the tribe of Judah.

Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, as a new DNA study traces the origins of the ancient villains in the Eastern ...

The most powerful Christian deity is divided into three primary forms: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. With so many forms, it's only natural that this Holy Trinity would bear so many ...

“It shows a man grappling with questions of identity, inheritance, and destiny, not as abstractions but as lived realities,” Balint told the New York Jewish Week in an email. “Even in his ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects ... As one chapter finishes, another begins. The twelve tribes have become Israel and Joseph the economist to Pharaoh has died and is buried ...

In our church on a typical Sunday, we read lessons from the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in most churches), the New Testament, and one of the Gospels. I ...

Before we look ahead to 2025, the New York Jewish Week remembers the lives of 18 Jewish New Yorkers who died in 2024. In their own way, each made a mark on the city and beyond through their ...

11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.) ...

WHICH WOULD IMPACT OUR EXERCISE OF OUR SOVEREIGNTY IN SPENDING TIME WITH THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE FIRES BURNING FOR THE LIVING NATIVE TRIBES ACROSS NEW ENGLAND. THERE IS ONE THEME THAT WAS ALWAYS ...