Bethlehem is situated on the southern portion in the Judean Mountains.

This gully was excavated by floods from the Judean Mountains in less than a year.

This gully was excavated by floods from the Judean Mountains in less than a year.

Nestled in the Judean Mountains, it lies 930 meters ( 3, 050 ft ) above sea level.

The Bible ( Judges 1: 16 ) describes it as a Canaanite stronghold whose king kept the Israelites from moving from the Negev to the Judean Mountains, although Tel Arad was destroyed over 1, 200 years before the arrival of the Israelites.

" Town of the Four ," is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the Judean Mountains region of the West Bank.

* Y. Katz and J. Lehr, Symbolism and landscape: The Etzion Bloc in the Judean Mountains, Middle Eastern Studies, vol.

* Ziph ( Judean Mountains ), south-east of Hebron

* One of five words inscribed on LMLK seals, possibly referring to Ziph in the Judean Mountains

Reforestation in the Judean Mountains in Israel is displacing populations of the Long-legged Buzzard, and the species is moving into the Judean Foothills and competing with the Short-toed Snake Eagle there.

Efrat (), or officially Efrata (), is an Israeli settlement established in 1983 and a local council in the Judean Mountains of the West Bank.

Ramat Raziel, a moshav in the Judean Mountains is named after Raziel, as well as many streets in Israel bearing his name in commemoration.

In 116 BCE, a Seleucid civil war resulted in the independence of certain regions including the minor Hasmonean principality in the Judean Mountains.

The Judean ( Jewish, see Ioudaioi ) control over the wider region resulted in it also becoming known as Judaea, a term which had previously only referred to the smaller region of the Judean Mountains.

Located in the foothills of the Judean Mountains 286 meters ( 938 feet ) above sea level, Modi ' in Illit has mild winters and hot, dry summers with temperatures averaging during the day.

*** Judean Mountains blind mole rat, S. judaei

The site is strategically located in the Sorek Valley, an access point from the Coastal Plain through the Shephelah and into the Central Judean Mountains.

Some modern scholars and archaeologists have argued that Essenes inhabited the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea, citing Pliny the Elder in support, and giving credence that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the product of the Essenes.

* c. 6500 BC: Naalebinding, a form of knitting, used in Judean Desert ( modern day Israel ).

The park is situated on the eastern border of the Judean Desert, on the Dead Sea coast, and covers an area of 14000 dunams ( one modern dunam equals the area of one decare ).

In addition to its honoured place in Judean history, the palm may contribute useful characteristics, such as environmental tolerance and disease resistance, to modern date cultivars.

Betzalel Bar Kochva, an Israeli historian, believes that the Judeans would have had equal numbers to the Seleucids in this battle, that Bacchides ' retreat was feigned in order to lure Judah into a vulnerable position, and that the Seleucid phalanx managed to best the Judean phalanx in a full-scale battle.

Etzion Village ) is a religious Israeli settlement and kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank.

Mount Gilo ) is an Israeli settlement and communal village located about five kilometers south of Jerusalem, and two kilometers west of Bethlehem in the northern Judean hills of the West Bank.

Ma ' on () is an Israeli settlement and a moshav shitufi in the Judean Hills of the West Bank, located south of Hebron and north of Beersheba.

" W. Sibley Towner suggests that Haggai's name might come " from his single-minded effort to bring about the reconstruction of that destination of ancient Judean pilgrims, the Temple in Jerusalem.

Some speculate that Kerioth refers to a region in Judea, but it is also the name of two known Judean towns.

Perhaps the name Kenizzite in his case derives from some ancestral Judean family head named Kenaz, even as Caleb ’ s brother was so named .— Jos 15: 17 ; Jg 1: 13 ; 1Ch 4: 13.

" Also in Esther 2: 5-6, we find that the name " Jew " is given to a man from the tribe of Benjamin: " There was a man a Yehudi ( Judean / Jewish man ) in Shushan the capital, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite ; who had been exiled from Jerusalem with the exile that was exiled with Jeconiah, king of Judah, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had exiled.

The People's Front of Judea, composed of the Pythons ' characters, harangue their " rivals " with cries of " splitters " and stand vehemently opposed to the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front, the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the Popular Front of Judea ( the last composed of a single old man, mocking the size of real revolutionary Trotskyist factions ).

The scenes shown included the shepherds gathering for Jesus's birth, which would have been at the very start of the movie ; a segment showing the kidnap of Pilate's wife ( a large woman played by John Case ); a scene introducing hardline Zionist Otto, leader of the Judean People's Front ( played by Eric Idle ); and a scene in which Pilate's wife alerts Otto to Brian's capture.

Two locations for Nazareth are cited in ancient texts: the Galilean ( northern ) location in the Christian gospels and a southern ( Judean ) location mentioned in several early noncanonical texts.

Thiele noticed that for the first seven kings of Israel ( ignoring Zimri's inconsequential seven-day reign ), the synchronisms to Judean kings fell progressively behind by one year for each king.

A date palm cultivar, known as Judean date palm is renowned for its long-lived orthodox seed, which successfully sprouted after accidental storage for 2000 years.

The model for the Samaritan's kindly behavior in the parable may be, in which Samaritans treat Judean prisoners well.

This relief is important for the knowledge of Judean dress.

The account states that Nabal lived in the city of Maon, and owned much land in the Judean town of Carmel, as well as many sheep and goats ; the events it reports are stated as happening at the time of sheep shearing, which in Israelite culture was a time for great festivities, owing to the importance of the wool trade.

The entire Jewish community outside the land of Israel depended on the calendar sanctioned by the Judean Sanhedrin ; this was necessary for the unified observance of the Jewish holidays.

This is not universally accepted-Nadav Na ' aman, for instance, reads it as BTWD, " House of Daodoh ", a local ruling family ; but if Lemaire is correct then this is the earliest evidence of the existence of the Judean kingdom and its Davidic dynasty.

; 3 1 / 2 sila for seven Greek craftsman, 1 / 2 sila apiece ; 1 / 2 sila to the carpenter, Nabuetir ; 10 sila to Ia-ku-u-ki-nu, the son of Judah ’ s king ; 2 1 / 2 sila for the five sons of the Judean king.

The Syrian legion then invested Jerusalem, but for uncertain reasons and despite initial gains, withdrew back towards the coast, where it was ambushed and defeated by Judean rebels at the Battle of Beth Horon, a result that shocked the Roman Empire leadership.

The diplomacy and artful politics of Antipater produced the Herodian dynasty ; he paved the way for the rise of his son Herod the Great, who married the Hasmonean princess Mariamne, endeared himself to Rome, and usurped the Judean throne to become king of Judea under Roman influence.

It is noteworthy that he has no sources for this theory, but develops his surmise after establishing the likely organization of a Judean military.

It was considered one of Judas Maccabeus ' most important victories in the war for Judean independence.

After the successive Jewish revolts of 66 and 132 CE, many Judean Jews were brought to Rome as slaves ( the norm in the ancient world was for prisoners of war and inhabitants of defeated cities to be sold as slaves ).

While his retelling of ancient Jewish history may be skewed, Jospehus ' Judean Antiquities is a vital source for the history of the Intertestamental period and the Jewish war against Rome.

Easterman's ideas in this respect are taken directly from contemptorary scholarship in the quest for the historical Jesus and the debate about whether or not there is a relationship between Jesus and the Judean sect known as the Essenes.

First, its version of the conversion posits a partially Judean descent for Khazar contemporaries of the author.

A theme of Matthew is likening Jesus to Moses for a Judean audience, and the Flight into Egypt does just that.