... for decades, and concluded: “The archeological data we possess today categorically rules out the uniform military conquest approach espoused by Albright and those who continued on his path.” ⁵⁰ Archeology Judea and Samaria West Bank settlers Religious Zionism The outcome of the Six-Day War...

...: the keeping alive of the legendary alliance of the twelve sons of Jacob, and the advocacy of peace with Samaria, at the time when the Second Temple community of Israel was drawing its boundaries and redefining itself as an exclusive religious group and Samaria was standing out as a dangerous enemy. The scheme...

... of deification. They include Jesus in the gospel of John, Simon of Samaria in the Great Declaration, and Allogenes in the Nag Hammadi library. A brief conclusion treats the relevance of self-deification mythology for today....

...The fifth chapter of this book analyses a set of episodes that, for the most part, take place in and around the northern capital of Samaria. The first episode (6:8–23) begins with the king of Aram upbraiding his senior officers, as he suspects a traitor in the midst. Informed that Elisha...

..., and Persian cultures around them. As part of the fabric of national identity woven by the literati in Yehud, this memory encouraged a sense of internal cohesion and self-affirmation. Simultaneously, by undermining the temple institution in Samaria, the memory of Sennacherib extended...

... Menander Perfect Love Prophets scripture Psalm scriptures sexuality Acts New Testament Peter Philip Simon Peter Hermes and pagan Gnosticism Biblical Gnosticism Seth and Norea Samaria and Palestine Simon the Samaritan Super heroes Superman Spiderman Doctor Strange Lara screams the primal...

... bore responsibility for escorting a huge wagon train full of supplies across the James River from the former Union base at White House Landing on the Pamunkey River. This endeavor led to a spirited cavalry fight at Samaria Church on June 24. In an unrelated action, the Confederates made a disjointed...

...The publication of the Samaria papyrus discovered in a Wadi ed-Daliyeh cave north of Jericho and the knowledge of the Samaria coinage help to fix the chronology of the Samaria governors from the second half of the 5th century BCE till Alexander. They reveal the practice of slavery as well...

...After putting Cecil Firth in charge of the Archaeological Survey of Nubia, Reisner focused on the Menkaure Valley Temple at Giza (1908, 1910) and the Harvard excavations at Samaria (1909–10). At Giza he found four perfectly preserved triads of King Menkaure in 1908, and then in 1910 an even larger...

...Some scholars have assumed that Samaria and Judah were substantially unlike one another in the Persian period. Until recently, there was little hard evidence to go by, but it is now possible to make progress on this front. Site surveys and excavation reports show that Samaria had a substantially...

...Chapter 6 focuses on the depiction of Samaria in Ezra-Nehemiah, analyzing the stories about conflicts between the Jerusalemite and Samarian authorities. The stress in Ezra-Nehemiah on the need to focus on rebuilding Judah itself is quite important. Nehemiah’s independent stance vis-à-vis Judah’s...

... Kings Isaiah Psalms Jeremiah Joshua Job Genesis Deuteronomy Book of Kings Israel Judah Aram-Damascus Assyria Jeroboam II Samaria According to the superscription in Hos. 1:1, the prophet Hosea acted in the early eighth century BCE during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah...

...Chapter III continues the account of Chapter II and provides an overview of the history of the two provinces of Samaria (since 722 bce) and Judah (since 587 bce), including the Samarian and Judean diaspora. The focus, however, lies on the Persian and Hellenistic–Roman periods...

... priests מלכי צדק Melchizedek Sodom Shalem Samaria Shechem Jerusalem redaction Mt. Gerizim text criticism redaction criticism genesis 14 was set into the HB where it was to accomplish two goals. The first was to demonstrate that Abram, YHWH’s chosen instrument of blessing...

...). The first part of the plot centers on a geographic movement from Jerusalem to Galilee, particularly on a journey from Judea to Cana, and during that process significant roles are played by four peoples-Nicodemus, John the baptizer, the woman of Samaria, and the Capernaum official whose son was sick...

... of the men and women we have come to think of as Jews were in fact Samarian Arameans. They had a hyphenated identity, somewhat similar to the double identity of Jewish Americans. By geographical origin, they were from Samaria. Having lived for about a century in the Aramaic-speaking environment of Palmyra...

... National Religious Party Judea Samaria Gachelet The Eternal One of Israel will not deceive and will not change His mind. 1 Samuel 15:29 Menachem Friedman observed that “If Israel's 1948 War of Independence is viewed as a Zionist war for the establishment of an emergent secular Jewish state...

... Joseph Manasseh “Mighty One of Jacob ” Ugarit Ugaritic corpus Hosea Assyria Assyrians ancient empire Beth Aven Samaria Horeb Asherah Bull statuette of Samaria Kuntillet Ajrud Adad Ark of the Covenant Astarte Cherubim Taʿanach cult stand Animation ensoulment of statues cult images passim...

... Priesthood Israelite Samaria Shechem Assyria Assyrians ancient empire Septuagint Arrivabene Andrea Bibliander Theodorus Schweigger Solomon Peshitta ʿAlī ʿAbdullah Yūsuf Egypt Egyptians passim but see esp Mawdūdī Abū’l Aʿlā Shemer shemer Sumerian Sumerians Epiphanius Beyer Andreas Hottinger...

...This chapter discusses Israelite goddesses, terracotta figurines, and the emergence of free-standing terracottas in Israel and Judah. It then provides two key contexts between Cave 1 (Ophel) in Jerusalem (Judah) and area E-257 in Samaria (Israel). Finally it looks at the repertory of Judean...