Israel (and Palestine territories)
There are 230 items in Israel (and Palestine territories):
King Herod Agrippa I
Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.King Herod Agrippa (44 CE) Sources: Flavius Josephus,…Kittim
Kittim: Jewish name for the gentile archenemy in the eschatological age. One of the "ships of the Kittim": a Roman warship…Luke's seventy-seven generations
Luke's Seventy-Seven Generations: a Messianic prediction in the Gospel of Luke, based on a parallel in the First Book of Enoch.In the Gospel of Luke 3.23-38, we can read the genealogy of Jesus of Nazareth. Although we may be confident…Maccabees and Method
The Maccabaean Revolt is an interesting case study to introduce some aspects of historical method, as can be seen below.Increasing Chaos …
The ancient Near East |
Map of Alexander's Levantine Campaign |
Map of Hasmonaean Judaea |
Map of Israel, Judah, and other Iron Age Kingdoms |
Judaea and Galilee during the reign of Hyrcanus II |
Map of Roman Judaea |
Map of Roman Judaea and it neighbors |
Map of the division of Herodes' kingdom |