At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah.

* The first " temple vision ", in which Ezekiel sees God leave the Temple because of the abominations being practiced there ( meaning the worship of Gods other than Yahweh, the official God of Judah ( Ezekiel 8: 1-16 );

This text contains a number of laws, dated to the 8th century BC kingdom of Judah, a time when a minority Yahwist faction was actively attacking mainstream polytheism, succeeding in establishing official monolatry of the God of Israel under Josiah by the late 7th century BC.

Borland protested that a governor could not countermand an order from a Confederate official, but in January 1862 his order was countermanded by the Confederate States Secretary of War at the time, Judah P. Benjamin.

Archeological finds at Ramat Rachel have yielded dozens of seal impressions on jar handles from the 4th-3rd centuries BCE bearing the inscription yehud, the official name of the province of Judah in this period.

This text contains a number of laws, dated to the 8th century BC kingdom of Judah, a time when a minority Yahwist faction was actively attacking mainstream polytheism, succeeding in establishing official monolatry of the God of Israel under Josiah by the late 7th century BC.

A few minutes later, Jimmy Lennon, Jr. announced the official decision and Judah screamed out in agony and again had to be restrained by a growing number of security guards and cornermen.

Ebed-Melech (; ) is mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah as an official at the palace of king Zedekiah of Judah during the Siege of Jerusalem.

The phrase " Moa Ambassa ze imnegede Yehuda ", ( Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah ) appeared on the arms, and always preceded the Emperor's official style and titles signaling the Emperor's submission to Christ, to whom the title belonged.

Judah tried to get the official to step in, but the bout continued until another right-left sent Spinks sprawling into the ropes, where the official finally halted the bout with 11 seconds left, transferring the undisputed Welterweight Championship to Judah.

* Judea, the former territory of the Kingdom of Judah after its demise ( c. 586 BC ), being successively a Babylonian, a Persian, a Ptolemaic and a Seleucid province, an independent kingdom under the Hasmoneans regarding itself as successor of the Biblical one, a Roman dependent kingdom and a Roman province

Similarly, there were then several decrees in place aimed at suppressing outward signs of national identity, including decrees against wearing tefillin and tzitzit ; as Conversion to Judaism was against Roman law, Rabbi Judah would not have discussed this.

King Judah Aristobulus II removed from power, while his brother John Hyrcanus II becomes king under Roman suzerainty.

King Judah Aristobulus II removed from power, while his brother John Hyrcanus II is reappointed king ( ethnarch ) under Roman suzerainty and high priest, until 40 BC.

He is a good friend of Judah Ben-Hur's Roman adoptive father Quintus Arrius, but he reminds Ben-Hur that he wields the emperor's own authority to keep peace in Judea.

After five years of war and raids, Judah sought an alliance with the Roman Republic to remove the Greeks: " In the year 161 BCE he sent Eupolemus the son of Johanan and Jason the son of Eleazar, ' to make a league of amity and confederacy with the Romans.

The Roman-Jewish Treaty was an agreement made between Judah Maccabee and the Roman Republic in 161 BCE according to 1 Maccabees and Josephus.

After the fall of the Northern Kingdom Israel was renamed Samaria ( Shomron ), and during the Hellenistic and Roman periods the name Judah was hellenized to Judea.

The Jewish diaspora ( or simply the Diaspora ; Hebrew Galut גלות ; Yiddish Golus ) was the historical exile of Jews from the region of the Kingdom of Judah and Roman Judaea, as well as the later emigration from wider Eretz Israel.

The Romans united Iudaea with the Galilee to form the Roman sub-province of Syria Palaestina ( encapsulating territories of ancient Canaan, Kingdom of Israel, Judah, Moab, Ammon, and Philistia ) and thus included much of the land on both sides of the Jordan River although with further political sub-divisions along the Jordan River valley.

During Bar Kokhba's revolt against Roman Empire ( 132-135 ), the supreme religious authority Rabbi Akiva sanctioned Simon bar Kokhba to be a war leader, whereas during the 2nd century Judah haNasi was not only the supreme temporal leader sanctioned by Rome, but also edited the original work of the Mishnah which became the " de-facto constitution " of the world's Jewry.

About this period the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, the last of the Hohenstaufen, employed Jews to translate from the Arabic philosophical and astronomical treatises ; among these writers were Judah Kohen of Toledo, later of Tuscany, and Jacob Anatoli of Provence.

Without trial, Judah is sent to the Roman galleys for life ; his mother and sister are imprisoned and all the family property is confiscated.

Judah decides to go to Rome for military training in order to use his acquired skills to fight the Roman Empire.

Chained on one of the warships, Judah has survived three hard years as a Roman slave, kept alive by his passion for vengeance.

Arrius unlocks Judah's chains so he has a chance to survive, and Judah ends up saving the Roman from drowning.

They return to Misenum, where Arrius adopts Judah, making him a freedman and a Roman citizen.

Messala realizes that Judah Ben-Hur has been adopted into a Roman home and his honor has been restored.

After the race, Judah Ben-Hur receives a letter from Iras asking him to go to the Roman palace of Idernee.

Judah kills a Roman guard in a duel, and becomes a hero in the eyes of a group of Galilean protesters.

" Kaplan describes the script at this point as having only a " modest to minimal " understanding of what the ancient Roman world was like, dialogue which veered " between flat Americanisms and stilted formality ", and an ill-defined relationship between Judah Ben-Hur and Messala.

The Jewish community of Rome goes back to the 2nd century B. C when the Roman Empire had an alliance of sorts with Judea under the leadership of Judah Maccabeus.

Parallelism between the Kingdom of Judah ( 10th-6th centuries BC ) & the Eastern Roman Empire ( 4th-7th century AD ).

Nothing is known of Halevi's personal life except the report in his poems that he had a daughter and that she had a son, also named Judah.

Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra ( Artaxerxes ' rescript ): King Artaxerxes is moved by God to commission Ezra " to inquire about Judah and Jerusalem with regard to the Law of your God " and to " appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates — all who know the laws of your God.

2 – 12: oracles about Judah and Jerusalem reflecting the late 8th century expansion of Assyria into the Kingdom of Judah

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

In composing the Patriarchal history the Yahwist drew on four separate blocks of traditional stories about Abraham, Jacob, Judah and Joseph, combining them with genealogies, itineraries and the " promise " theme to create a unified whole.

The area of modern Israel is small, about the size of Wales or half the size of Costa Rica, and is roughly located on the site of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

Various stories are told about Judah haNasi to illustrate different aspects of his character.

This time, Judah spoke to his father in order to persuade him about having Benjamin accompany them, so as to prevent Egyptian retribution.

But an alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant by about the year 220 CE, when Rabbi Judah haNasi redacted the Mishnah.

" He later wrote about a battle in Lachish " And Hezekiah of Judah who had not submitted to my yoke ... him I shut up in Jeruselum his royal city like a caged bird.

Although both Finkelstein and Silberman accept that David and Solomon were real kings of Judah about the 10th century BC, they claim that the earliest independent reference to the Kingdom of Israel is about 890 BC, and for Judah about 750 BC.

But an alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant about the year 200 CE, when Rabbi Judah haNasi redacted the Mishnah ().

* a city in the mountains of Judah, now el-Ghuwein, near Eshtemoh, about 10 miles south-west of Hebron

The Lord called Jeremiah to prophetic ministry in about 626 BC, about one year after Josiah king of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather.

There are several Jewish authors of the 10th and 11th centuries, e. g., Aaron ben Meïr, Samuel ben Paltiel, Solomon ben Judah and others, who write about the Jews resorting to the Western Wall for devotional purposes.

It contains references that fit those cited in the Biblical texts, both the reference about the sun and moon found in Joshua and also the reference in 2 Samuel ( in the Hebrew but not in the Septuagint ) to teaching the Sons of Judah to fight with the bow.

What we do know of Israel and Judah of the tenth century does not allow us to interpret this lack of evidence as a gap in our knowledge and information about the past, a result merely of the accidental nature of archeology.

For the united monarchy both Finkelstein and Silberman do accept that David and Solomon were really existing persons ( no kings but bandit leaders or hill country chieftains ) from Judah about the 10th century BCE-they do not assume that there was such a thing as united monarchy with a capital in Jerusalem.

Judah, the strongest, thought twice about killing Joseph and proposed that he be sold.