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href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuriad_Yehouda" title="Meuriad Yehouda – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Meuriad Yehouda" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda_(stamme)" title="Juda (stamme) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Juda (stamme)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda_(Bibel)" title="Juda (Bibel) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Juda (Bibel)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribu_de_Jud%C3%A1" title="Tribu de Judá – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Tribu de Judá" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribo_de_Jehuda" title="Tribo de Jehuda – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Tribo de Jehuda" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribu_de_Juda" title="Tribu de Juda – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Tribu de Juda" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%A0%EB%8B%A4_%EC%A7%80%ED%8C%8C" title="유다 지파 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="유다 지파" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda_(pleme)" title="Juda (pleme) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Juda (pleme)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suku_Yehuda" title="Suku Yehuda – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Suku Yehuda" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuda_(trib%C3%B9)" title="Giuda (tribù) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Giuda (tribù)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%98_%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94" title="שבט יהודה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שבט יהודה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabila_la_Yuda" title="Kabila la Yuda – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Kabila la Yuda" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribus_Iudae" title="Tribus Iudae – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Tribus Iudae" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokom-pirenen%27_i_Jod%C3%A0" title="Fokom-pirenen' i Jodà – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Fokom-pirenen' i Jodà" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B7_%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B0%D8%A7" title="سبط يهوذا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="سبط يهوذا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puak_Judah" title="Puak Judah – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Puak Judah" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda_(stam)" title="Juda (stam) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Juda (stam)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%80%E6%97%8F" title="ユダ族 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ユダ族" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_stamme" title="Judas stamme – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Judas stamme" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juda" title="Juda – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Juda" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%81_%DB%8C%DB%81%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%81" title="قبیلہ یہوداہ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="قبیلہ یہوداہ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" 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Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">שֵׁבֶט יְהוּדָה</span>‎, <i>Shevet Yehudah</i>) was one of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_of_Israel" title="Twelve Tribes of Israel">twelve Tribes of Israel</a>, named after <a href="/wiki/Judah_(son_of_Jacob)" title="Judah (son of Jacob)">Judah</a>, the son of <a href="/wiki/Jacob" title="Jacob">Jacob</a>. Judah was the first tribe to take its place in the Land of Israel, occupying its Southern part. <a href="/wiki/Jesse_(biblical_figure)" title="Jesse (biblical figure)">Jesse</a> and his sons, including King <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>, belonged to this tribe. </p><p>The Tribe of Judah played a central role in the <a href="/wiki/Deuteronomistic_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Deuteronomistic history">Deuteronomistic history</a>, which encompasses the books of <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Deuteronomy" title="Book of Deuteronomy">Deuteronomy</a> through <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Kings" title="Books of Kings">II Kings</a>. After the death of <a href="/wiki/King_Solomon" class="mw-redirect" title="King Solomon">King Solomon</a>, the Tribe of Judah, along with the Tribe of <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Benjamin" title="Tribe of Benjamin">Benjamin</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Dan" title="Tribe of Dan">Tribe of Dan</a> and the Levites formed the Southern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Kingdom of Judah</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> as its capital. The kingdom lasted until its conquest by <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a> in c. 586 BCE. </p><p>The tribe's symbol was the lion, and it was often represented in Jewish art. After the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian captivity</a>, the distinction between the Tribes was largely lost, but the term "Judah" gave rise to the word "<a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>" In later traditions, including <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> and Ethiopian Judaism, the "<a href="/wiki/Lion_of_the_Tribe_of_Judah" class="mw-redirect" title="Lion of the Tribe of Judah">Lion of the Tribe of Judah</a>" became a messianic symbol. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biblical_account">Biblical account</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tribe_of_Judah&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biblical account"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The tribe of Judah, its conquests, and the centrality of its capital in Jerusalem for the worship of <a href="/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh">Yahweh</a> featured prominently in the <a href="/wiki/Deuteronomist#Deuteronomistic_history" title="Deuteronomist">Deuteronomistic history</a>, encompassing the books of <a href="/wiki/Deuteronomy" class="mw-redirect" title="Deuteronomy">Deuteronomy</a> through <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Kings" title="Books of Kings">II Kings</a>, which most scholars agree was reduced to written form, although subject to exilic and post-exilic alterations and emendations, during the reign of the Judahite reformer <a href="/wiki/Josiah" title="Josiah">Josiah</a> from 641–609 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-Finkelstein,_pp._369-373_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finkelstein,_pp._369-373-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the account in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Joshua" title="Book of Joshua">Book of Joshua</a>, following a partial conquest of <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Israelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Israelite">Israelite</a> tribes (the <a href="/wiki/Jebusites" title="Jebusites">Jebusites</a> still held <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-pnxthp_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pnxthp-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a> allocated the land among the twelve tribes. Judah's portion is described in Joshua 15<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as encompassing all the Southern <a href="/wiki/Land_of_Israel" title="Land of Israel">Land of Israel</a>, specially the <a href="/wiki/Negev" title="Negev">Negev</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wilderness_of_Zin" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilderness of Zin">Wilderness of Zin</a> and Jerusalem. However, the consensus of modern scholars is that this conquest never occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-BakerArnold2004_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BakerArnold2004-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Congress1999_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Congress1999-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BerlinBrettler2014_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BerlinBrettler2014-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other scholars point to extra-biblical references to Israel and Canaan as evidence for the potential historicity of the conquest.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the opening words of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Judges" title="Book of Judges">Book of Judges</a>, following the death of <a href="/wiki/Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a>, the Israelites "asked the Lord" which tribe should be first to go to occupy its allotted territory, and the Tribe of Judah was identified as the first tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the narrative in the Book of Judges, the Tribe of Judah invited the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Simeon" title="Tribe of Simeon">Tribe of Simeon</a> to fight with them in <a href="/wiki/Military_alliance" title="Military alliance">alliance</a> to secure each of their allotted territories. However, many scholars do not believe that the Book of Judges is a reliable historical account.<sup id="cite_ref-McNutt1999_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McNutt1999-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCann2002_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCann2002-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Samuel">Book of Samuel</a> describes God's repudiation of a monarchic line arising from the Southern <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Benjamin" title="Tribe of Benjamin">Tribe of Benjamin</a> due to the sinfulness of <a href="/wiki/King_Saul" class="mw-redirect" title="King Saul">King Saul</a>, which was then bestowed onto the tribe of Judah for all time in the person of <a href="/wiki/King_David" class="mw-redirect" title="King David">King David</a>. In Samuel's account, after the death of Saul, all the tribes other than Judah remained loyal to the House of Saul, while Judah chose <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> as its king. However, after the death of <a href="/wiki/Ish-bosheth" title="Ish-bosheth">Ish-bosheth</a>, Saul's son and successor to the throne of Israel, all the other Israelite tribes made David, who was then the King of Judah, king of a single Re-United Kingdom of Israel. The <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Kings" title="Books of Kings">Book of Kings</a> follows the expansion and unparalleled glory of the <a href="/wiki/United_Monarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="United Monarchy">United Monarchy</a> under <a href="/wiki/King_Solomon" class="mw-redirect" title="King Solomon">King Solomon</a>. A majority of scholars believe that the accounts concerning David and Solomon's territory in the "united monarchy" are exaggerated, and a minority believe that the "united monarchy" never existed at all.<sup id="cite_ref-Faust2016_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Faust2016-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VaughnKillebrew2003_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VaughnKillebrew2003-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EdelmanZvi2014_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EdelmanZvi2014-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Disagreeing with the latter view, Old Testament scholar Walter Dietrich contends that the biblical stories of circa 10th-century BCE monarchs contain a significant historical kernel and are not simply late fictions.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the accession of <a href="/wiki/Rehoboam" title="Rehoboam">Rehoboam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>'s son, in c. 930 BCE, the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel under the leadership of <a href="/wiki/Jeroboam" title="Jeroboam">Jeroboam</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Ephraim" title="Tribe of Ephraim">Tribe of Ephraim</a> split from the <a href="/wiki/Davidic_line" title="Davidic line">House of David</a> to create the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Kingdom">Northern Kingdom</a> in <a href="/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Samaria</a>. The Book of Kings is uncompromising in its low opinion of its larger and richer neighbor to the north and understands its conquest by <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a> in 722 BCE as divine retribution for the Kingdom's return to idolatry.<sup id="cite_ref-Finkelstein,_pp._261-265_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finkelstein,_pp._261-265-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Tribes of Judah, Southern Dan and Benjamin remained loyal to the House of David. These tribes formed the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Kingdom of Judah</a>, which existed until Judah was conquered by <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a> in c. 586 BCE and the population was deported. </p><p>When the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Jews returned from Babylonian exile</a>, residual tribal affiliations were abandoned, probably because of the impossibility of reestablishing previous tribal land holdings. However, the special religious roles decreed for the <a href="/wiki/Levites" class="mw-redirect" title="Levites">Levites</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kohen" title="Kohen">Kohanim</a> were preserved, but Jerusalem became the sole place of worship and sacrifice among the returning exiles, northerners and southerners alike. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Territory_and_main_cities">Territory and main cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tribe_of_Judah&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Territory and main cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_of_Israel#Land_allotment" title="Twelve Tribes of Israel">Twelve Tribes of Israel § Land allotment</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Elah_Valley_below_Adullam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Elah_Valley_below_Adullam.jpg/170px-Elah_Valley_below_Adullam.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Elah_Valley_below_Adullam.jpg/255px-Elah_Valley_below_Adullam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Elah_Valley_below_Adullam.jpg/340px-Elah_Valley_below_Adullam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>The Valley of Elah, near Adullam, in the territorial boundary of Judah</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the biblical account, at its height, the tribe of Judah was the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, and occupied most of the territory of the kingdom, except for a small region in the northeast occupied by <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Benjamin" title="Tribe of Benjamin">Benjamin</a>, and an enclave towards the south-west which was occupied by <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Simeon" title="Tribe of Simeon">Simeon</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hebron" title="Hebron">Hebron</a> were initially the main cities within the territory of the tribe. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lion_of_Judah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Lion_of_Judah.jpg/170px-Lion_of_Judah.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Lion_of_Judah.jpg/255px-Lion_of_Judah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Lion_of_Judah.jpg/340px-Lion_of_Judah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1306" data-file-height="1735" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Lion_of_Judah" title="Lion of Judah">lion</a> is the symbol of the tribe of Judah. It is often represented in <a href="/wiki/Jewish_art" title="Jewish art">Jewish art</a>, such as this <a href="/wiki/Sculpture" title="Sculpture">sculpture</a> outside a <a href="/wiki/Synagogue" title="Synagogue">synagogue</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The size of the territory of the tribe of Judah meant that in practice it had four distinct regions:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Negev" title="Negev">Negev</a> (Hebrew: <i>south</i>) – the southern portion of the land, which was highly suitable for <a href="/wiki/Pasture" title="Pasture">pasture</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Shephelah" title="Shephelah">Shephelah</a> (Hebrew: <i>lowland</i>) – the coastal region, between the highlands and the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> sea,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (August 2018)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Tribe_of_Judah#In_the_modern_meaning_it_stops_short_of_the_coastal_plain;_pls._bring_proof_that_it_was_different_in_biblical_meaning." title="Talk:Tribe of Judah">discuss</a></i>]</sup> which was used for <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">agriculture</a>, in particular for <a href="/wiki/Grain" title="Grain">grains</a>.</li> <li>The <i>wilderness</i> – the barren region immediately next to the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea" title="Dead Sea">Dead Sea</a>, and below <a href="/wiki/Sea_level" title="Sea level">sea level</a>; it was wild, and barely inhabitable, to the extent that animals and people which were made unwelcome elsewhere, such as <a href="/wiki/Bear" title="Bear">bears</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leopards" class="mw-redirect" title="Leopards">leopards</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Outlaw" title="Outlaw">outlaws</a>, made it their home. In biblical times, this region was further subdivided into three sections – the <i>wilderness of <a href="/wiki/En_Gedi" class="mw-redirect" title="En Gedi">En Gedi</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <i>wilderness of Judah</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <i>wilderness of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ma%27on_(Judea)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ma'on (Judea) (page does not exist)">Maon</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i>hill country</i> – the elevated plateau situated between the Shephelah and the <i>wilderness</i>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (August 2018)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Tribe_of_Judah#Dubious" title="Talk:Tribe of Judah">discuss</a></i>]</sup> with rocky slopes but very fertile soil. This region was used for the production of grain, <a href="/wiki/Olive" title="Olive">olives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grape" title="Grape">grapes</a>, and other fruit, and hence produced <a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wine" title="Wine">wine</a>.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="Schicron"></span>In the <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a>, Shicron was one of the landmarks at the western end of the north boundary of the Tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:1). It was probably located near <a href="/wiki/Ekron" title="Ekron">Ekron</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tribe_of_Judah&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>, the Tribe consisted of Descendants of <a href="/wiki/Judah_(biblical_person)" class="mw-redirect" title="Judah (biblical person)">Judah</a>, the fourth son of <a href="/wiki/Jacob" title="Jacob">Jacob</a> and of <a href="/wiki/Leah" title="Leah">Leah</a>. Some <a href="/wiki/Biblical_studies" title="Biblical studies">biblical scholars</a> view this as an <a href="/wiki/Etiological_myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Etiological myth">etiological myth</a> created in hindsight to explain the tribe's name and connect it to the other tribes in the Israelite confederation.<sup id="cite_ref-Jewish_Encyclopedia_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jewish_Encyclopedia-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With Leah as a matriarch, biblical scholars regard the tribe as having been believed by the text's authors to have been part of the original Israelite confederation.<sup id="cite_ref-Jewish_Encyclopedia_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jewish_Encyclopedia-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like the other tribes of the Kingdom of Judah, the Tribe of Judah is entirely absent from the ancient <a href="/wiki/Song_of_Deborah" class="mw-redirect" title="Song of Deborah">Song of Deborah</a>. Traditionally, this has been explained as being due to the southern kingdom being too <i>far away</i> to be involved in the battle, but <a href="/wiki/Israel_Finkelstein" title="Israel Finkelstein">Israel Finkelstein</a> et al. claim the alternative explanation that the southern kingdom was simply an insignificant rural backwater at the time the poem was written.<sup id="cite_ref-Finkelstein,_pp._138-140_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finkelstein,_pp._138-140-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; margin: 0 auto;"> <tbody><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:2px solid;padding:0.2em"><a href="/wiki/Judah_(son_of_Jacob)" title="Judah (son of Jacob)">Judah</a></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:2px solid;padding:0.2em">daughter of Shuah</td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td></tr><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td style="border-right:1px solid;height:1em;width:1em"></td><td style="height:1em;width:1em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td></tr> <tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td rowspan="2" style="border-right:1px 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dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:2px solid;padding:0.2em"><a href="/wiki/Onan" title="Onan">Onan</a></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:2px solid;padding:0.2em"><a href="/wiki/Shelah_(son_of_Judah)" title="Shelah (son of Judah)">Shelah</a></td></tr><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td></tr> <tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td rowspan="2" style="border-right:1px dashed;height:2em;width:1em"></td><td rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:1em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" 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dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;border-bottom:1px dashed;width:2em"></td><td style="border-right:1px dashed;border-bottom:1px dashed;height:1em;width:1em"></td><td rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:1em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td></tr><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td style="border-right:1px solid;height:1em;width:1em"></td><td style="height:1em;width:1em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" style="height:1em;width:2em"></td><td style="height:1em;width:1em"></td></tr> <tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="height:2em;width:2em"></td><td colspan="6" rowspan="2" style="border:2px solid;padding:0.2em"><a href="/wiki/Perez_(son_of_Judah)" title="Perez (son of Judah)">Perez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zerah" title="Zerah">Zerah</a></td></tr><tr style="height:1px;text-align:center"></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Professor Aaron Demsky argues that the genealogical record of Shelah and his sons was an allegory of the history of Shelanite clans in <a href="/wiki/Shephelah" title="Shephelah">Shephelah</a> (i.e. Judean foothills). These clans established cities such as Lecah (or <a href="/wiki/Lachish" class="mw-redirect" title="Lachish">Lachish</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Maresha" title="Maresha">Mareshah</a>. They also worked as potters and craftsmen for the king, particularly <a href="/wiki/Hezekiah" title="Hezekiah">Hezekiah</a>. After the Assyrians destroyed their cities, survivors fled to Jerusalem and fully assimilated with the inhabitants by 538 BC, when the Babylonian exiles returned to Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Character">Character</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tribe_of_Judah&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many of the Jewish leaders and prophets of the Hebrew Bible claimed membership in the tribe of Judah. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Literary_prophets" title="Literary prophets">literary prophets</a> <a href="/wiki/Isaiah" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amos_(prophet)" title="Amos (prophet)">Amos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joel_(prophet)" title="Joel (prophet)">Joel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Micah_(prophet)" title="Micah (prophet)">Micah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Obadiah" title="Obadiah">Obadiah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zechariah_(Hebrew_prophet)" title="Zechariah (Hebrew prophet)">Zechariah</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zephaniah" title="Zephaniah">Zephaniah</a>, all belonged to the tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The genealogies given in Matthew 1:1–6 and Luke 3:23–34 in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> describe <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> as a Descendant of David, Matthew through <a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a> and Luke through <a href="/wiki/Nathan_(son_of_David)" title="Nathan (son of David)">Nathan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fate">Fate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tribe_of_Judah&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Fate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Jerusalem.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Emblem_of_Jerusalem.svg/170px-Emblem_of_Jerusalem.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Emblem_of_Jerusalem.svg/255px-Emblem_of_Jerusalem.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Emblem_of_Jerusalem.svg/340px-Emblem_of_Jerusalem.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="68" data-file-height="100" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Lion_of_Judah" title="Lion of Judah">Lion of Judah</a> on the municipal emblem of <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>As part of the Kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah survived the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Captivity_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Assyrian Captivity of Israel">destruction of Israel by the Assyrians</a>, and instead was subjected to the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian captivity</a>; when the captivity ended, the distinction between the tribes were lost in favour of a common identity. Since Simeon and Benjamin had been very much the junior partners in the Kingdom of Judah, it was Judah that gave its name to the identity—that of the <i><a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a></i>. </p><p>After the fall of Jerusalem, <a href="/wiki/Babylonia" title="Babylonia">Babylonia</a> (modern-day Iraq), would become the focus of Judaism for 1,000 years. The first Jewish communities in Babylonia started with the exile of the tribe of Judah to Babylon by <a href="/wiki/Jehoiachin" class="mw-redirect" title="Jehoiachin">Jehoiachin</a> in 597 BCE as well as after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-Translation_1981,_pg._95_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Translation_1981,_pg._95-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many more Jews migrated to Babylon in CE 135 after the <a href="/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt" title="Bar Kokhba revolt">Bar Kokhba revolt</a> and in the centuries after.<sup id="cite_ref-Translation_1981,_pg._95_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Translation_1981,_pg._95-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The triumph or victory of "the Lion of the Tribe of Judah", who is able to open the scroll and its <a href="/wiki/Seven_seals" title="Seven seals">seven seals</a>, forms part of the vision of the writer of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation">Book of Revelation</a> in the New Testament.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>'s traditions, recorded and elaborated in a 14th-century treatise, the "<a href="/wiki/Kebre_Negest" class="mw-redirect" title="Kebre Negest">Kebre Negest</a>", assert descent from a retinue of Israelites who returned with the <a href="/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba" title="Queen of Sheba">Queen of Sheba</a> from her visit to <a href="/wiki/King_Solomon" class="mw-redirect" title="King Solomon">King Solomon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, by whom she had conceived the Solomonic dynasty's founder, <a href="/wiki/Menelik_I" title="Menelik I">Menelik I</a>. Both <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Tewahedo_Church" title="Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church">Christian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Beta_Israel" title="Beta Israel">Jewish</a> Ethiopian tradition has it that these immigrants were mostly of the Tribes of <a href="/wiki/Tribe_of_Dan" title="Tribe of Dan">Dan</a> and Judah;<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> hence the <a href="/wiki/Ge%27ez_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ge'ez language">Ge'ez</a> motto <i>Mo`a 'Anbessa Ze'imnegede Yihuda</i> ("The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has conquered"), one of many names for Jesus of Nazareth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tribe_of_Judah&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah" title="History of ancient Israel and Judah">History of ancient Israel and Judah</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tribe_of_Judah&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output 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.citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFFinkelstein2002" class="citation book cs1">Finkelstein, Israel (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=lu6ywyJr0CMC"><i>The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Sacred Texts</i></a>. Simon & Schuster. pp. 369–373. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780743223386" title="Special:BookSources/9780743223386"><bdi>9780743223386</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bible+Unearthed%3A+Archaeology%27s+New+Vision+of+Ancient+Israel+and+the+Origin+of+Sacred+Texts&rft.pages=369-373&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=9780743223386&rft.aulast=Finkelstein&rft.aufirst=Israel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fbooks%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dlu6ywyJr0CMC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pnxthp-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-pnxthp_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kitchen, Kenneth A. (2003), <i>On the Reliability of the Old Testament</i> (Grand Rapids, Michigan. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8028-4960-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8028-4960-1">0-8028-4960-1</a>)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+15&version=nkjv">Joshua 15</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BakerArnold2004-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BakerArnold2004_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Besides the rejection of the Albrightian 'conquest' model, the general consensus among OT scholars is that the Book of Joshua has no value in the historical reconstruction. They see the book as an ideological retrojection from a later period—either as early as the reign of Josiah or as late as the Hasmonean period." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFK._Lawson_Younger_Jr.2004" class="citation book cs1">K. Lawson Younger Jr. (1 October 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vO8XRZyhvpMC&pg=PA200">"Early Israel in Recent Biblical Scholarship"</a>. In David W. Baker; Bill T. Arnold (eds.). <i>The Face of Old Testament Studies: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches</i>. Baker Academic. p. 200. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8010-2871-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8010-2871-7"><bdi>978-0-8010-2871-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Early+Israel+in+Recent+Biblical+Scholarship&rft.btitle=The+Face+of+Old+Testament+Studies%3A+A+Survey+of+Contemporary+Approaches&rft.pages=200&rft.pub=Baker+Academic&rft.date=2004-10-01&rft.isbn=978-0-8010-2871-7&rft.au=K.+Lawson+Younger+Jr.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvO8XRZyhvpMC%26pg%3DPA200&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Congress1999-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Congress1999_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"It behoves us to ask, in spite of the fact that the overwhelming consensus of modern scholarship is that Joshua is a pious fiction composed by the deuteronomistic school, how does and how has the Jewish community dealt with these foundational narratives, saturated as they are with acts of violence against others?" <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarl_S._Ehrlich1999" class="citation book cs1">Carl S. Ehrlich (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZlRPQJ8Qd4C&pg=PA117">"Joshua, Judaism and Genocide"</a>. <i>Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: Biblical, Rabbinical, and Medieval Studies</i>. Brill. p. 117. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-04-11554-4" title="Special:BookSources/90-04-11554-4"><bdi>90-04-11554-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Joshua%2C+Judaism+and+Genocide&rft.btitle=Jewish+Studies+at+the+Turn+of+the+Twentieth+Century%2C+Volume+1%3A+Biblical%2C+Rabbinical%2C+and+Medieval+Studies&rft.pages=117&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=90-04-11554-4&rft.au=Carl+S.+Ehrlich&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D5ZlRPQJ8Qd4C%26pg%3DPA117&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BerlinBrettler2014-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BerlinBrettler2014_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Recent decades, for example, have seen a remarkable reevaluation of evidence concerning the conquest of the land of Canaan by Joshua. As more sites have been excavated, there has been a growing consensus that the main story of Joshua, is that of a speedy and complete conquest (e.g. Josh. 11.23: 'Thus Joshua conquered the whole country, just as the L<span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">ORD</span> had promised Moses') is contradicted by the archaeological record, though there are indications of <i>some</i> destruction and conquest at the appropriate time. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdele_BerlinMarc_Zvi_Brettler2014" class="citation book cs1">Adele Berlin; Marc Zvi Brettler (17 October 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yErYBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT951"><i>The Jewish Study Bible: Second Edition</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p. 951. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-939387-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-939387-9"><bdi>978-0-19-939387-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Jewish+Study+Bible%3A+Second+Edition&rft.pages=951&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2014-10-17&rft.isbn=978-0-19-939387-9&rft.au=Adele+Berlin&rft.au=Marc+Zvi+Brettler&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DyErYBAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT951&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGörg" class="citation journal cs1">Görg, Görg. "Israel in Hieroglyphen". <i>Biblischen Notizen</i>. <b>106</b>: 21–27.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Biblischen+Notizen&rft.atitle=Israel+in+Hieroglyphen&rft.volume=106&rft.pages=21-27&rft.aulast=G%C3%B6rg&rft.aufirst=G%C3%B6rg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrendo2002" class="citation journal cs1">Frendo, Anthony (2002). "Two Long-Lost Phoenician Inscriptions and the Emergence of Ancient Israel". <i>Palestine Exploration Quarterly</i>. <b>134</b>: 37–43. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1179%2Fpeq.2002.134.1.37">10.1179/peq.2002.134.1.37</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161065442">161065442</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Palestine+Exploration+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Two+Long-Lost+Phoenician+Inscriptions+and+the+Emergence+of+Ancient+Israel&rft.volume=134&rft.pages=37-43&rft.date=2002&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1179%2Fpeq.2002.134.1.37&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A161065442%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Frendo&rft.aufirst=Anthony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+1:1–2&version=nkjv">Judges 1:1–2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McNutt1999-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-McNutt1999_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">“In any case, it is now widely agreed that the so-called ‘patriarchal/ancestral period’ is a later ‘’literary’’ construct, not a period in the actual history of the ancient world. The same is the case for the ‘exodus’ and the ‘wilderness period,’ and more and more widely for the ‘period of the Judges.’" <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPaula_M._McNutt1999" class="citation book cs1">Paula M. McNutt (1 January 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hd28MdGNyTYC&pg=PA42"><i>Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel</i></a>. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 42. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-664-22265-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-664-22265-9"><bdi>978-0-664-22265-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Reconstructing+the+Society+of+Ancient+Israel&rft.pages=42&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=1999-01-01&rft.isbn=978-0-664-22265-9&rft.au=Paula+M.+McNutt&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dhd28MdGNyTYC%26pg%3DPA42&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">“The biblical text does not shed light on the history of the highlands in the early Iron I. The conquest and part of the period of the judges' narratives should be seen, first and foremost, as a Deuteronomist construct that used myths, tales, and etiological traditions in order to convey the theology and territorial ideology of the late monarchic author(s) (e.g., Nelson 1981; Van Seters 1990; Finkelstein and Silberman 2001, 72–79, Römer 2007, 83–90).” <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIsrael_Finkelstein2013" class="citation book cs1">Israel Finkelstein (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/9781589839106_OA.pdf"><i>The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Society of Biblical Literature. p. 24. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58983-912-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58983-912-0"><bdi>978-1-58983-912-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Forgotten+Kingdom%3A+The+Archaeology+and+History+of+Northern+Israel.&rft.pages=24&rft.pub=Society+of+Biblical+Literature&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-58983-912-0&rft.au=Israel+Finkelstein&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbl-site.org%2Fassets%2Fpdfs%2Fpubs%2F9781589839106_OA.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McCann2002-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-McCann2002_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">”In short, the so-called ‘period of the judges’ was probably the creation of a person or persons known as the deuteronomistic historian."<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJ._Clinton_McCann2002" class="citation book cs1">J. Clinton McCann (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YV4kEFf6GpsC&pg=PA5"><i>Judges</i></a>. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 5. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8042-3107-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8042-3107-7"><bdi>978-0-8042-3107-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Judges&rft.pages=5&rft.pub=Westminster+John+Knox+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-8042-3107-7&rft.au=J.+Clinton+McCann&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYV4kEFf6GpsC%26pg%3DPA5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Faust2016-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Faust2016_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Although most scholars accept the historicity of the united monarchy (although not in the scale and form described in the Bible; see Dever 1996; Na'aman 1996; Fritz 1996, and bibliography there), its existence has been questioned by other scholars (see Whitelam 1996b; see also Grabbe 1997, and bibliography there). The scenario described below suggests that some important changes did take place at the time." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAvraham_Faust2016" class="citation book cs1">Avraham Faust (1 April 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MOHeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT172"><i>Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance</i></a>. Routledge. p. 172. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-94215-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-134-94215-2"><bdi>978-1-134-94215-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Israel%27s+Ethnogenesis%3A+Settlement%2C+Interaction%2C+Expansion+and+Resistance&rft.pages=172&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2016-04-01&rft.isbn=978-1-134-94215-2&rft.au=Avraham+Faust&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DMOHeCwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT172&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-VaughnKillebrew2003-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-VaughnKillebrew2003_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"In some sense most scholars today agree on a 'minimalist' point of view in this regard. It does not seem reasonable any longer to claim that the united monarchy ruled over most of Palestine and Syria." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGunnar_Lebmann2003" class="citation book cs1">Gunnar Lebmann (2003). Andrew G. Vaughn; Ann E. Killebrew (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yYS4VEu08h4C&pg=PA156"><i>Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period</i></a>. Society of Biblical Lit. p. 156. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58983-066-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58983-066-0"><bdi>978-1-58983-066-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jerusalem+in+Bible+and+Archaeology%3A+The+First+Temple+Period&rft.pages=156&rft.pub=Society+of+Biblical+Lit&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-1-58983-066-0&rft.au=Gunnar+Lebmann&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DyYS4VEu08h4C%26pg%3DPA156&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EdelmanZvi2014-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-EdelmanZvi2014_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"There seems to be a consensus that the power and size of the kingdom of Solomon, if it ever existed, has been hugely exaggerated." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPhilip_R._Davies2014" class="citation book cs1">Philip R. Davies (18 December 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zWTfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA71">"Why do we Know about Amos?"</a>. In Diana Vikander Edelman; Ehud Ben Zvi (eds.). <i>The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud</i>. Routledge. p. 71. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-317-49031-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-317-49031-9"><bdi>978-1-317-49031-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Why+do+we+Know+about+Amos%3F&rft.btitle=The+Production+of+Prophecy%3A+Constructing+Prophecy+and+Prophets+in+Yehud&rft.pages=71&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2014-12-18&rft.isbn=978-1-317-49031-9&rft.au=Philip+R.+Davies&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzWTfBQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA71&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Tracing the development of the Bible’s stories about kings from the earliest sources (now embedded in 1–2 Samuel) to the biblical books themselves, Dietrich argues that some of the stories are dated close to the time of the events they describe. His approach identifies a series of ideologies within the text, providing evidence for the development of Israelite ideas rather than grounds for dismissing the stories as fiction." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDietrich2007" class="citation book cs1">Dietrich, Walter (2007). <i>The Early Monarchy in Israel: The Tenth Century B.C.E. Translated by Joachim Vette</i>. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Early+Monarchy+in+Israel%3A+The+Tenth+Century+B.C.E.+Translated+by+Joachim+Vette&rft.place=Leiden%2C+The+Netherlands&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2007&rft.aulast=Dietrich&rft.aufirst=Walter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Finkelstein,_pp._261-265-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Finkelstein,_pp._261-265_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFinkelstein2002" class="citation book cs1">Finkelstein, Israel (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=lu6ywyJr0CMC"><i>The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Sacred Texts</i></a>. Simon & Schuster. pp. 261–265. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780743223386" title="Special:BookSources/9780743223386"><bdi>9780743223386</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bible+Unearthed%3A+Archaeology%27s+New+Vision+of+Ancient+Israel+and+the+Origin+of+Sacred+Texts&rft.pages=261-265&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=9780743223386&rft.aulast=Finkelstein&rft.aufirst=Israel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fbooks%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dlu6ywyJr0CMC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Samuel%2024:1&version=nrsv">1 Samuel 24:1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Judges%201:16&version=nrsv">Judges 1:16</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=1%20Samuel%2023:24&version=nrsv">1 Samuel 23:24</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jewish_Encyclopedia-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Jewish_Encyclopedia_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Jewish_Encyclopedia_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Jewish Encyclopedia</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Finkelstein,_pp._138-140-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Finkelstein,_pp._138-140_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFinkelstein2002" class="citation book cs1">Finkelstein, Israel (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=lu6ywyJr0CMC"><i>The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Sacred Texts</i></a>. Simon & Schuster. pp. 138–140. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780743223386" title="Special:BookSources/9780743223386"><bdi>9780743223386</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bible+Unearthed%3A+Archaeology%27s+New+Vision+of+Ancient+Israel+and+the+Origin+of+Sacred+Texts&rft.pages=138-140&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=9780743223386&rft.aulast=Finkelstein&rft.aufirst=Israel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fbooks%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dlu6ywyJr0CMC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDemsky2016" class="citation web cs1">Demsky, Aaron (December 26, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240208082856/https://www.thetorah.com/article/who-was-shelah-son-of-judah-and-what-happened-to-him">"Who Was "Shelah Son of Judah" and What Happened to Him?"</a>. <i>TheTorah.com</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thetorah.com/article/who-was-shelah-son-of-judah-and-what-happened-to-him">the original</a> on February 8, 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TheTorah.com&rft.atitle=Who+Was+%22Shelah+Son+of+Judah%22+and+What+Happened+to+Him%3F&rft.date=2016-12-26&rft.aulast=Demsky&rft.aufirst=Aaron&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetorah.com%2Farticle%2Fwho-was-shelah-son-of-judah-and-what-happened-to-him&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTOW_Project2010" class="citation web cs1">TOW Project (9 December 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theologyofwork.org/old-testament/introduction-to-the-prophets/situating-the-prophets-in-israels-history">"Situating the Prophets in Israel's History"</a>. <i>Theology of Work</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 October</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Theology+of+Work&rft.atitle=Situating+the+Prophets+in+Israel%27s+History&rft.date=2010-12-09&rft.au=TOW+Project&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theologyofwork.org%2Fold-testament%2Fintroduction-to-the-prophets%2Fsituating-the-prophets-in-israels-history&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATribe+of+Judah" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Matthew%201:1–6&version=nrsv">Matthew 1:1–6</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Luke%203:23–31&version=nrsv">Luke 3:23–31</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Translation_1981,_pg._95-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Translation_1981,_pg._95_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Translation_1981,_pg._95_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">[מרדכי וורמברנד ובצלאל ס רותת "עם ישראל – תולדות 4000 שנה – מימי האבות ועד חוזה השלום", ע"מ 95. (Translation: Mordechai Vermebrand and Betzalel S. Ruth. "The People of Israel – the history of 4000 years – from the days of the Forefathers to the Peace Treaty", 1981, p. 95)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Revelation%205:5&version=nrsv">Revelation 5:5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Amos+9:7&version=nkjv">Amos 9:7</a>: לוא כבני כשיים אתם לי בני ישראל נאם־יהוה הלוא את־ישראל העליתי מארץ מצרים ופלשתיים מכפתור וארם מקר׃ "Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. 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