People may think that they know about the biblical ... judges when the tribes even ceased begging divine help. The period of the Judges describes the struggles of the disjointed twelve tribes of ...

(Credit: Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority.) “The name Jerubbaal is familiar from biblical tradition in the Book of Judges as an alternative name for the judge Gideon ben Yoash ...

A 3,200-year-old fortress has been discovered in southern Israel. The fortress was ... 12th-century B.C., an era described in the biblical Book of Judges, the stronghold sheds light on the region ...

July 12 (UPI) --Archaeologists have uncovered a small jug with a rare five-letter inscription, linking the 3,100-year-old ceramic artifact to a biblical judge ... among Israel's Judean Foothills ...

Israel’s foreign affairs ministry (MFA) has created a regional diplomatic storm after it published a biblical map that many ...

The centrality of history is obvious when one considers the rage generated by Israel’s Foreign Ministry publishing a historical map of Biblical-era Israel. The spokesmen for two Arab countries ...

A map of the biblical land of Israel published by the official Israel Arabic account on X earlier this week has drawn condemnation from neighboring Jordan, which accused the Israeli government of ...

This would place it in the time frame of the era of the judges who, according to the biblical account, took over leadership of the tribes of Israel after the death of Joshua, the successor of Moses.

An ancient collection that was recently given to Israel’s Haifa University allows researchers a unique opportunity to see how the region was portrayed in maps by European scholars.

Archaeologists digging in southern Israel uncovered a rare inscription dating to around 1,100 BCE, the period of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA ...

The name written on the jug, Yarubaal, may allude to biblical Jerubbaal, also known as the judge Gideon ben (son of) Yoash, but we cannot be sure if he owned the inscribed vessel,' the Israel ...