ISRAELITE RELIGION. In 1979 two silver amulets dating to the late seventh to sixth centuries BCE were discovered in a burial cave in Ketef Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem. The smaller of these amulets reads: "Blessed be [he or she] by Yahweh, the...
TWELVE TRIBES. The Twelve Tribes (previously known as the Northeast Kingdom Community Church because of its location in the northeast corner of Vermont, and later as the Messianic Communities) is a communal, millenarian Bible-based movement that...
The Israelites, by B. S. J. Isserlin. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001. Pp. 304. $23.00 (paper), $39.95 (cloth). Who were the Israelites? For many the answer to this question may be selfevident. Yet in a variety of ways this question has been the source of...
The Israelites in History and Tradition by Neils Peter Lemche Library of Ancient Israel. Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 1998. 246pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-28105227-1. WHILE THE JESUS SEMINAR MAKES HEADLINES, historians of ancient Israel are engaged in their own wrangling, albeit with far...
Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of the Holy Land's most colorful religious ceremonies _ the nighttime Passover sacrifice.The entire Samaritan community, which totals just over 700 people, was...
DIMONA, Israel, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Four decades after they heard what they call an angel's order to leave the United States and move to Israel, a vegan community popularly known as "the Black Hebrews" is about to get its own piece of the...
