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  2. Naphtali, in biblical times, one of the 12 tribes that took possession of Canaan after the death of Moses. After Joshua led the people of Israel into Canaan, he divided the new territory among the 12 tribes, assigning a region northwest of the Sea of Galilee to the tribe of Naphtali.
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  3. 2 days agoJudaism - Hellenistic, 4th-2nd Century: Contact between Greeks and Semites goes back to Minoan and Mycenaean times and is reflected in certain terms used by Homer and other early Greek authors. It is not until the end of the 4th century, however, that Jews are first mentioned by Greek writers, who praise them as brave, self-disciplined, and philosophical. After being conquered by Alexander the ...
  4. Dec 31, 2024Judaism - Torah, Monotheism, Covenant: The Bible depicts the family of the Hebrew patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (all early 2nd millennium bce)—as having its chief seat in the northern Mesopotamian town of Harran, which then belonged to the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni. From there Abraham, the founder of the Hebrew people, is said to have migrated to Canaan (comprising roughly the ...
  5. Dec 31, 2024Judaism - Hellenistic, Mythology, Legends: Judaism entered a new phase in 330 bce, when Alexander the Great completed his conquest of the Middle East. The dominant features of the Hellenistic Age, which began with Alexander's death in 323, were an increasing cosmopolitanism and a fusion of ancient Middle Eastern and Greek cultures. These found expression in Jewish myth and legend in the ...
  6. Dec 11, 2024Moses Maimonides (born March 30, 1135, Córdoba [Spain]—died December 13, 1204, Egypt) was a Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician, the foremost intellectual figure of medieval Judaism.His first major work, begun at age 23 and completed 10 years later, was a commentary on the Mishna, the collected Jewish oral laws.A monumental code of Jewish law followed in Hebrew, The Guide for the ...
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  7. Dec 31, 2024Judaism - Torah, Talmud, Mysticism: The term Jewish philosophy refers to various kinds of reflection engaged in by persons identified as Jews. At times, as in the Middle Ages, this meant any methodical and disciplined thought pursued by Jews, whether on general philosophical subjects or on specifically Judaic themes. In other eras, as in modern times, concentration on the latter has been ...
  8. The Antiquities of the Jews, an account of Jewish history from its early beginnings to the revolt against Rome in ad 66, written in Greek in about ad 93 by Flavius Josephus, a general in the Jewish army who defected to Rome. His writings are not always accepted as totally reliable.
  9. Dec 31, 2024Judaism - Myths, Rituals, Beliefs: Biblical myths are found mainly in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. They are concerned with the creation of the world and the first man and woman, the origin of the current human condition, the primeval Deluge, the distribution of peoples, and the variation of languages. The basic stories are derived from the popular lore of the ...
  10. Dec 31, 2024Judaism - Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah: The Middle Ages was a singularly productive period in the history of Jewish myth and legend. Medieval Jews played a prominent role in the transmission of Middle Eastern and Asian tales to the West and enhanced their own repertoire with a goodly amount of secular material. Especially in Spain and Italy, Arabic versions of standard collections of folktales ...
  11. Jan 1, 2025Flavius Josephus (born ad 37/38, Jerusalem—died ad 100, Rome) was a Jewish priest, scholar, and historian who wrote valuable works on the Jewish revolt of 66-70 and on earlier Jewish history. His major books are History of the Jewish War (75-79), The Antiquities of the Jews (93), and Against Apion.. Early life. Flavius Josephus was born of an aristocratic priestly family in Jerusalem.

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