The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE.

The Ancient Israelites settled the land of Canaan sometime between 1300 and 1200 BCE. They traced their descent to a nomadic clan chief called Abram, several centuries before, who had migrated to Canaan from Mesopotamia. His descendants had then migrated on to Egypt.

6 天之前 · Israel, either of two political units in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament): the united kingdom of Israel under the kings Saul, David, and Solomon, which lasted from about 1020 to 922 bce; or the northern kingdom of Israel, including the …

2022年9月22日 · The term "ancient Israel" is used by scholars to refer to the tribes, kingdoms and dynasties formed by ancient Jewish people in the Levant (an area that encompasses modern-day Israel,...

The history of Israel covers an area of the Southern Levant also known as Canaan, Palestine or the Holy Land, which is the geographical location of the modern states of Israel and Palestine.

From this point on, there would be two kingdoms of Hebrews: in the north - Israel, and in the south - Judah. The Israelites formed their capital in the city of Samaria, and the Judaeans kept their capital in Jerusalem. These kingdoms remained separate states for over two hundred years.

2024年10月20日 · The ancient Israelites played an important role in the development of the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This makes their history important, but it is also obscure.

2025年1月20日 · The land, culture and people of Israel during the Biblical period, especially from the Iron Age to the Persian period. The FREE eBook Israel: An Archaeological Journey allows readers to sift through the archaeology and history of this ancient land and get a view of Biblically-significant sites through an archaeologist’s lens.

The Israelites, “or children of Israel,” were Semetic-speakers who lived in Canaan and traced their descent back to Abraham through his grandson Israel. Hebrew tradition begins their history with Abraham’s departure from Ur in southern Mesopotamia (see Map 2.1).

The ancient Israelites were a Semitic-speaking people whose history is central to understanding the development of major world religions. They are most commonly associated with the biblical stories of the Old Testament.