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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Books: Tribal Lands — The Twelve Tribes of Israel in Their Ancestral Territories Tamar Weissman explains the connection between each tribe and the tract of land it was apportioned in the Bible.