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unusual facts about Ancient Israel



Baruch Arensburg

At the same time he has studied many samples of human remains dating to the times of the Second Temple and is considered as the leading authority on the Jewish population of ancient Israel.

Jonathan Cahn

He is best known for his best selling book The Harbinger, in which he compares the United States and the events of September 11, to the ancient Israel and the destruction of Kingdom of Israel.

Kidomiyon

Kidomiyon, also known as the Kirmion and the Keramyon, was one of the four rivers that encompassed Ancient Israel, which include Yarden, Yarmoch and Pigah, and which are probably tributaries of the River Jordan.

Pigah

Pigah was one of the four legendary rivers that encompassed Ancient Israel, the other three of which are Yarden, Kidomiyon and Yarmoch, and which are probably tributaries of the River Jordan.


see also

Did God Have a Wife?

The core of the book lies in chapters 5, Archaeological Evidence for Folk Religions in Ancient Israel, 6 The Goddess Asherah and Her Cult, and 7 Asherah, Women’s Cults, and ‘Official Yahwism’.

Hebrew language

In its widest sense, Classical Hebrew means the spoken language of ancient Israel flourishing between the 10th century BCE and the turn of the 4th century CE.

James B. Pritchard

James Bennett Pritchard (October 4, 1909 – January 1, 1997) was an American archeologist whose work explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Israel, Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.

Norman Golb

Golb has been a key proponent of the viewpoint that the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Qumran were not the product of the Essenes, but rather of many different Jewish sects and communities of ancient Israel, which he presents in his book Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?: The Search For The Secret Of Qumran.

Ramara

The origins of the names are unclear, as both may be either Spanish words (rama for "branch" and mara for "sea") or Biblical references (rama for Ramah, the biblical town of Benjamin in ancient Israel, and mara for Marah, named in the biblical Book of Exodus as the place where Moses sweetened the bitter waters for the Israelites.

Sign of the Dove

Doves were also used in ancient Israel as Korban, or religious sacrifice within the tabernacle and temples.