The contents of the booklet were not original and many have claimed by comparison texts that most of its content came from an existing book called Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright by J. H. Allen which was originally published in 1902.

Allen is best known for his book titled Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright, which many have claimed formed the foundation for the teachings on British-Israelism of Herbert W. Armstrong.

Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright states that it is: " An Analysis of the Prophecies of the Scriptures in regard to the Royal Family of Judah and the Many Nations of Israel, the Lost Ten Tribes.

Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright is divided into three parts:

* Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright by J. H. Allen

Before Maimonides concluded this, Sunni Muslims officially prohibited mutah ( i. e. temporary marriage ) relationships ; some commentators ' suggest that Maimonides changed his view in response to this development, similar to Gershom ben Judah's ban on polygamy being made after Christians had prohibited it.

Huntington changed Judah's strategy of finding several investors and instead sought to raise the money from three partners: Mark Hopkins, his business partner ; James Bailey, a jeweler ; Leland Stanford, a grocer, future governor of California, and founder of Stanford University ; and Charles Crocker, a dry-goods merchant and eventual owner of Crocker Banks.

This was a devastating insult to Judah and his family, and was a source of bitterness throughout Judah's life and the topic of his writings years later ; especially since this was not the first time the Abravanel Family was subjected to such embarrassment at the hands of the Catholic Church.

Bacchides now established the Hellenists as rulers in Israel ; and upon Judah's death, the persecuted patriots, under Jonathan, brother of Judah, fled beyond the Jordan River .( ib.

Classical rabbinical sources also allude to a war between the Canaanites and Judah's family ( not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible ), as a result of their destruction of Shechem in revenge for the rape of Dinah ; Judah features heavily as a protagonist in accounts of this war.

Even if Judah had been trying to save Joseph, the classical rabbinical sources still regard him negatively for it ; these sources argue that, as the leader of the brothers, Judah should have made more effort, and carried Joseph home to Jacob on his ( Judah's ) own shoulders.

2: 32 ; one of Judah's posterity.

Rubens painted Judah Maccabee praying for the dead ; the painting illustrates an episode from II Maccabees 12: 39 – 48 in which Judah's troops found stolen idolatrous charms on the corpses of Jewish warriors slain on the battlefield.

Even the Karaites incorporated some of them into their prayer-book ; so that there is scarcely a synagogue in which Judah's songs are not sung in the course of the service.

In the text, after Yahweh had killed Shelah's two older brothers, namely Er and Onan, Judah was unwilling to allow Tamar, who had been successively Er's and Onan's wife, to be married to Shelah ; Judah's concern was that Tamar might be cursed and Shelah might die if married to her, and so he told her to wait until Shelah had grown up ; but when Shelah did, Judah neglected to marry him to Tamar.

Thy servant has been obedient to the heavenly vision which Thou gavest him in his native land ; and under the shadow of Thine outstretched arm, he has safely arrived in this place to dedicate and consecrate this land unto Thee, for the gathering together of Judah's scattered remnants, according to the predictions of the holy Prophets -- for the building up of Jerusalem again after it has been trodden down by the Gentiles so long, and for rearing a Temple in honor of Thy name.

Yet, in 1975, Rabbi I. S. Langa has published Judah's commentary on the Pentateuch, but he was forced to publish a second censored edition, due to revolutionary commentaries of Judah ( on Gen. 48: 20 ; Lev.

The principal work, however, with which Judah's name is connected is the Sefer Ḥasidim ( Bologna, 1538 ; Basel, 1580, and often reprinted ).

Judah's mysticism was in such a stage of opposition ; he therefore undervalued the study of the Halakhah and indulged in marked departures from the accepted religious practises.

These sources argue that Judah's brothers, after witnessing Jacob's grief at the loss of Joseph, deposed and excommunicated Judah, as the brothers held Judah entirely responsible, since they would have brought Joseph home if Judah had asked them to do so.

Fowler argues that while Isaac and Jacob's brothers were excluded from the promise of the messiah, all twelve of Judah's brothers were the ancestors of the tribe from which the messiah would come.

Ultimately, Josiah ’ s reforms would not be enough to preserve Judah and Jerusalem from destruction, both because the sins of Manasseh, Josiah ’ s grandfather, had gone too far and as a result of Judah's return to Idolatry ( Jer 11. 10ff .).

Chapters 7 – 23 contain prophecies against Judah's enemies.

These include various predictions of the downfall of the northern kingdom, the equivalent prediction of the downfall of Judah following the reign of Manasseh, the extension of Josiah's reforms in accordance with the laws of Deuteronomy, and the revision of the narrative from Jeremiah concerning Judah's last days.

The theological views that led to its author ( s ) writing the Book of Lamentations emanated from the cultural and religious attitudes of the people of Judah in the 6th and 7th centuries BC and was probably also influenced by non-biblical sources which originated from the cultural and religious attitudes of Judah's neighbors of differing religions.

When the Assyrians attacked Judah in 701 they did so via the Philistine coast and the Shephelah, the border region which included Micah's village of Moresheth, as well as Lachish, Judah's second largest city.

It is said that in Judah's house, only Hebrew was spoken, and even the maids spoke it.

Other prophetic parables acted out by Jeremiah include burying a linen belt so that it gets ruined to illustrate how God intends to ruin Judah's pride.

Twenty-two years later, to the day, some six years after Judah's death, the " golden spike " was driven, completing the Transcontinental Railroad.

Construction was completed in 1869, with virtually the entire course of the railroad having followed Judah's plans.

Within days of Judah's death, the CPRR's first locomotive, Gov.

Collis Huntington, a hardware merchant, heard Judah's presentation about the railroad at the St. Charles Hotel in Sacramento in November 1860.

This reckoning makes year 598 / 597 BC, the year Zedekiah was installed by Nebuchadnezzar according to Judah's Tishri-based calendar, to be year " one ," so that the fall of Jerusalem in his eleventh year would have been in year 588 / 587 BC, i. e. in the summer of 587 BC.

They conferred the title of " Nasi " as hereditary, and Judah's sons served both as Patriarch and as heads of the Sanhedrin.

One explanation of the name's origins is that it derives from the Aramaic " makkaba ", " the hammer ", in recognition of Judah's ferocity in battle.

Judah's Dialoghi is regarded as the finest of Humanistic Period works.

The institution of guerrilla warfare practices by Judah over several years led to victory against the Seleucids: " It was now, in the fall of 165, that Judah's successes began to disturb the central government.

In fact, one or two stories published before the war had been critical of fascism ; most prominently, King Ottokar's Sceptre showed Tintin working to defeat a coup attempt that could be seen as an allegory of the Anschluss, Nazi Germany's takeover of Austria.

Quarterly, first and fourth Or a pelican displayed sable, second and third gules two increscents in fess argent ; for a crest, on a barred helmet affronty or, mantled azure doubled Or, the Royal Crown of Syldavia proper ; behind the shield the Royal Sceptre of Syldavia and a sceptre of justice in saltire ; the motto " Eih bennek, eih blavek " on a scroll below the shield, pendent therefrom the badge of the Order of the Golden Pelican.

Syldavian cuisine appears to be typical of Eastern Europe ; blini, herbs, sausage and garnish are seen in the kitchen of a Syldavian restaurant in King Ottokar's Sceptre.

* The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Columbia defeats British challenger Sceptre, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 4 races to 0 ; it is the first Cup series held in the era of the 12-metre yacht

There are also replicas like the Imperial State Crown of Great Britain ; the Sceptre of the Czar of Russia ; Orbs of Denmark and the Diamond necklace of Marie Antoinette among other things.

* Milton, G., Nathaniel ’ s Nutmeg: How one man's courage changed the course of history, 2000 Sceptre ; 400 pages, ISBN 0-340-69676-1

Rootes names still crop up occasionally ; there was a Peugeot 605 " Sceptre " model, the right to that name being inherited from the Humber Sceptre.

However, the Sceptre name had re-appeared by 1990 as a special edition on SRi versions of the Peugeot 205, 405 and 605 ; Peugeot had bought Chrysler's European operations ( which also included French carmaker Simca ) in 1978 and rebranded the whole European Chrysler range under reborn the Talbot marque.