Ancient Israel & Judaea | The Ancient Hebrews | Judaism

Caesarea Maritima is a city Herod founded to honor the Emperor Augustus.

Judea is a region of ancient Palestine.

Tetragrammaton is a way of writing the name of God.

What and when was the period known as the Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile?

Responsible for the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity, King Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562) was the most important king of the Second or Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Maccabees is athe name of a priestly Jewish family.

B.C.E. means before the common era.

The meaning and significance of Biblical and Hebrew Names

E-text of Legends of the Jews - BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS Preface, by Louis Ginzberg.

Herod the Great. In Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIV, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus explains how Herod the Great came to be king of the Jews.

C.E. means Common Era. C.E. can be written CE.

Definition of a patriarch.

Canon is a storehouse for Hebrew writing.

Mishnah is a collection of Jewish traditions.

The First Temple Period ended with the exile of the Hebrews.

Second Temple Period

Timeline with background information on the Second Temple Period, from the Judaism Guide.

Pharisees were an order of Jews in the Second Temple Period..

Sadducees were an order of Secon Temple Period Jews.

Acacia tortilis is a tree. The wood of the Acacia tortilis was put to memorable purpose in the Old Testament.

Genizah is a storehouse for Hebrew writing.

Halakhah is the corpus of Jewish Law.

Hasmonean is the corpus of Jewish Law.

Herodian is a period in Jewish history.

Masada was a Jewish fortress.

Masoretic was a Jewish fortress.

Maps of the Ancient Near East.

Phylacteries are leather boxes for scriptural passages.

Plaited baskets are leather boxes for scriptural passages.

Yahad was a communal sect..

Section of Jona Lendering's site on the Herods includes this page on Claudius' friend. The story of the death of King Herod appears in Josephus and Acts of the Apostles. Map accompanies article.

A rich timeline of Jewish history covering events and responses to Jews throughout the ages.

Had the Jews learned the lessons of Ashkelon's fall, they might have been spared their Babylonian exile and the loss of the First Temple.

Archaeologists have to dig deep to find tangible evidence of biblical history. Sometimes they not only have to dig deep, they have to turn things over to discover artifacts. Such was the case with a 1962 find now known as the Pilate Inscription, found amid the ruins of Herod the Great's capital, Caesarea Maritima, that provides a tangible link...

Maps showing an area of the eastern Mediterranean important in antiquity and known as the Levant.