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Iron Age Hebrew tribal people in Canaan
Most mainstream sources in the provided set treat Palestinians as part of the Semitic-speaking and Levantine peoples: historical summaries identify ancient Canaanites as “Semitic” inhabitants of Pales...
Genetic studies do not provide broad support for a direct, population-level link between most African Americans and ancient Israelites; instead, multiple studies trace African American ancestry overwh...
The earliest historically attested inhabitants of the land conventionally called / were the of , a Semitic population present in the Bronze Age and described in classical sources and modern scholarshi...
uses the Greek term (Παλαιστίνη) to designate a district of —the coastal and adjacent parts of the between and —applying it more broadly than the biblical coastal Philistia . He distinguishes subgroup...
Deuteronomy 18 sets two practical tests for prophecy—speaking in the name of the LORD and prophetic words coming to pass—and those criteria have been read, stretched, and contested across Jewish, Chri...
Christian apologists deploy a cluster of interlocking defenses to reconcile the brutal conquest narratives with the character of God and the authority of Scripture: appeals to divine judgment and mora...
The Hebrew Bible contains passages—most notably in Deuteronomy and Joshua—that describe divine commands to “utterly destroy” certain Canaanite peoples, language that many readers equate with genocide ...
Scholars agree the Khazar polity (c. 7th–13th centuries) included an elite—and some communities—that adopted Judaism and that Khazaria acted as a major trade-state between Byzantium and the Islamic wo...