It’s clear, he told me, that there is some kind of tradition about tribes in ancient Israel. He pointed to Judges 5, ... The 12 tribes of Israel have a certain kind of divine cache, ...

Jacob may have blessed twelve tribes. But he had one nation in mind as he did so. Harry Freedman’s 2014 book The Talmud: A Biography is now available in paperback on Amazon.

AlamyIn 1644 Antonio Montezinos, a Portuguese traveler originally known as Aharon Levi, returned to Amsterdam with an astonishing story about the people he had encountered in the proverbial depths of ...

Twelve Tribes is not a substitute for the important books that directly address today’s political issues, but it is a valuable complement to those books, and it adds another layer of complexity ...

One map, for example, shows the division of land among biblical tribes. Another, perhaps drawn under Renaissance influence, shows the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem as a lavish castle.

Menasseh ben Israel, a Dutch Jewish scholar widely respected in both Christian and Jewish circles, played a central role in strengthening the association of the American Indians with the Lost Tribes.

A hand-colored engraved map from the 1712 Amsterdam Haggadah has all the place-names written in Hebrew and shows the route of the Israelites in the Sinai Desert and the territories of the Ten Tribes.

A renowned televangelist, Innocent Agu, in a 738-page book titled ‘The Hebrew Evidence of Nigerian Jews: A Scriptural Insight’, has said that Igbo people in South-Eastern Nigeria and some ...

The tribes being spoken of are, of course, those of ancient Israel. The Israelites were divided into 12 tribes (not including the Levites who were not landowners).