Judahite

Until the Judahite period, it appears to have been a pagan cultic centre.

This marked the end of Maresha as a Judahite city.

The main focus of her research is Israelite and Judahite history and religion.

Others are sceptical, and suggest it might represent either a Judahite or Canaanite fortress.

In Nehemiah, it is shown as being occupied by the returning Judahite exiles.

The pastoral landscape of these ancient stories resonates with the way a large portion of the later Judahite population lived.

“Some of us look at things in a very ethnocentric way — everything is Israelite or Judahite,” he said.

There has been considerable academic debate about the actual dates of reigns of the Judahite kings.

The intention was to take high class Judahite captives and assimilate them into Babylonian society.

Given these figures, Finkelstein suggests that 3/4 of the Judahite population had remained in Judah.

She married Mered the Judahite.

It is less clear that the Karnak inscriptions list Judahite cities, but only the attack on Judah appears in the bible.

Another Ashur, the father of Tekoa, is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4 among the Judahite descendants.

Due to its location in the Elah Valley it functioned as one of the main Judahite border cities, sitting on the boundary between the lower and higher Shephelah.

This outlook influenced the Judahite landowning elite, who became extremely powerful in court circles after they placed the eight-year-old Josiah on the throne following the murder of his father.

If we accept the biblical implication that the Persian kings made a grant of their Judahite estates to the exiled nobility, we have to consider how they would make a legal claim.

He was also the first Judahite king to be descended from both the House of David and the House of Omri, through his paternal grandmother and predecessor, Athaliah.

The texts were written by a group of Jews living at Elephantine near the Nubian border, whose religion has been described as "nearly identical to Iron Age II Judahite religion".

He was an Israelite and a Judahite, and a member of the Perezite and Hezronite clans, through his descent from Jacob, Judah, Perez, and Hezron, respectively.

Tel Burna, was fortified, lies between the Philistine city of Gath and the Judahite city of Lachish, and was inhabited continuously from the Bronze Age onwards.

For decades now, the excavated areas of the successive Judahite, Hellenistic, Roman-Byzantine and Crusader towns have been included in a large Israeli national park with major points of attraction for tourists.

In the context, Dr. Levy and Dr. Najjar wrote, "the biblical references to the Edomites, especially their conflicts with David and subsequent Judahite kings, garner a new plausibility."

The former kingdom of Judah then became a Babylonian province, with Gedaliah, a native Judahite but not of the royal Davidic dynasty, as governor (or possibly ruling as a puppet king).

Whatever the cultic significance of a kedeshah to a follower of the Canaanite religion, the Hebrew Bible makes it clear that cultic prostitution had no place in Israelite or Judahite religion.

He leads the northerners in rebellion against the Judahite regime, which, he says, discriminates against the north economically and politically (apparently the border between the two countries was the ancient equivalent of the Watford Gap).