David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

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.

Then he moved to Mainz, where he studied under another of his relatives, Rabbi Isaac ben Judah, the rabbinic head of Mainz and one of the leading sages of the Lorraine region straddling France and Germany.

After his family moved to Troy, New York, Judah studied engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

It moved in 140 to Shefaram under the presidency of Shimon ben Gamliel II, and to Beit Shearim and Sephoris in 163, under the presidency of Judah I.

Finally, it moved to Tiberias in 193, under the presidency of Gamaliel III ( 193 – 230 ) ben Judah haNasi, where it became more of a consistory, but still retained, under the presidency of Judah II ( 230 – 270 ), the power of excommunication.

In their sorrow and joy, in the creative spirit and all that moved the souls of these men, Judah sympathetically shared ; as he says in the beginning of a short poem: " My heart belongs to you, ye noble souls, who draw me to you with bonds of love ".

( In 1790 Judah broke off his relationship with Badaraka when he moved with his family from Charleston to Savannah, Georgia.

The brief Babylonian captivity of the Hebrews that began in 586 BC opened a minor power vacuum in Judah ( prior to the Israelites ' return under the Persian King, Cyrus ), and as Edomites moved into open Judaean grazing lands, Nabataean inscriptions began to be left in Edomite territory.

William Wyler originally wanted Heston for the role, but sought another actor after he moved Heston into the role of Judah Ben-Hur.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

Of notable importance is Isaiah 7: 14, where the prophet is assuring king Ahaz that God will save Judah from the invading armies of Israel and Syria ; the sign that will prove this is the forthcoming birth of a child called Emmanuel, " God With Us ".

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.

This coming judgment will affect all of the nations, including the author ’ s own nation of Judah where God is understood to reside.

He goes up to Hebron, where he is anointed king over Judah.

Continuing their journey to Egypt, when they approached in proximity, Israel sent his son Judah ahead to find out where the caravans were to stop.

This account is contradicted by the version in Chronicles, where, following Samaria's destruction, King Hezekiah is depicted as endeavouring to draw the Ephraimites and Manassites closer to Judah.

If Yahweh was not a Canaanite god, this raises the question of where he originated and how he became the national god of Israel and Judah in Iron Age II ( 1000-586 ).

Clothing figures prominently in the Bible where it appears in numerous contexts, the more prominent ones being: the story of Adam and Eve, Joseph's cloak, Judah and Tamar, Mordecai and Esther.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days ; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall (, interpreting the " wall " as the ocean ).

It is first mentioned ( Genesis 37: 17 ) in connection with the history of Joseph where, at the suggestion of Judah, the brothers sold Joseph to the Ishmaelite merchants ( Gen. 37: 17 ).

Next, Bacchides was sent with Alcimus and an army of twenty thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry, and met Judah at the Battle of Elasa ( Laisa ), where this time it was the Hasmonean commander who was killed.

As they approached Egyptian territory, Judah went ahead to ask Joseph where the caravan should unload.

After Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865, Judah P. Benjamin fled south with Jefferson Davis and the rest of his cabinet, but he left the group shortly before they reached Washington, Georgia, where they held their last meeting.

Its situation, between the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Israel ( Ephraim ), and the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah ( Judah ), is seemingly prophesied in the Blessing of Moses, where it is described as dwelling between YHWH's shoulders.

3: 24 ; the first exilarch explicitly mentioned as such in Talmudic literature ( where he is named as Huna ); contemporary of Judah I ( Judah HaNasi )

Jehoiakim was installed as king of Judah by pharaoh Necho II in 608 BC, who deposed his younger brother Jehoahaz after a reign of only three months and took him to Egypt, where he died.

His final known act was when he, aided by his nephew Ahaziah, king of Judah, fought unsuccessfully against the army of Hazael, king of the Arameans at Ramoth-Gilead, where Jehoram was wounded.

Such ancient rock burials are seldom seen west of the Jordan river, and the only other concentration of these megaliths are to be found in the hills of Judah in the vicinity of Hebron, where the giant sons of Anak were said to have lived ( Numbers 13: 33 ).

Jehoahaz was taken captive to Egypt, where he became the first king of Judah to die in exile.

After the Mishnah was published by Judah HaNasi ( c. 200 CE ), the work was studied exhaustively by generation after generation of rabbis in Babylonia and the Land of Israel.

Minz studied chiefly under his father, Judah Minz, whom he succeeded as rabbi and head of the yeshiva of Padua.

Then he returned to Germany, and studied under the mystic Eleazar ben Judah at Worms, and, at Speyer, under Simchah ben Samuel, his intimate friend, and Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi, author of Abi ha -' Ezri and Abi ' asaf.

On his return to Nehardea he studied under Levi b. Sisi, who was in Babylon before the death of Judah ha-Nasi ( see A. Krochmal in " He-Ḥaluẓ ," i. 69 ), and who exerted a great influence on Samuel's development.

Although Samuel was at that time too young to study directly under R. Judah, he studied under the pupils of the patriarch, especially with Hanina bar Hama ( comp.

He studied under Elijah ha-Levi and Judah Minz of Padua.

He studied under Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg ( Yehudah HeHasid ).

Judah Messer Leon's 1454 grammar is a product of the Italian Renaissance.

His work Dialoghi d ' amore (" Dialogues of Love "), written in Italian, was one of the most important philosophical works of his time In an attempt to circumvent a plot, hatched by local Catholic Bishops to kidnap his son, Judah sent his son from Castile, to Portugal with a nurse, but by order of the king, the son was seized and baptized.

Abraham ben Judah ha-Levi Minz was an Italian rabbi who flourished at Padua in the first half of the 16th century, father-in-law of Meïr Katzenellenbogen.

Interest in Judah only revived in the 19th century, with Giuda Macabeo, ossia la morte di Nicanore ... ( 1839 ), an Italian " azione sacra " based on which Vallicella composed an oratorio.

* Judah Moscato ( Italian rabbi, poet, and philosopher of the sixteenth century )

Judah Leon Abravanel ( or Abrabanel, otherwise known as: in Latin, Leo Hebraeus ; in Portuguese, Leão Hebreu ; in Spanish, León Hebreo ; in Italian, Leone Ebreo ; in English, Leo the Hebrew ; and in Hebrew, יהודה בן יצחק אברבנאל ben Yitzhak Abravanel ) ( c. 1465 Lisbon-c. 1523 Naples ) was a Jewish Portuguese physician, poet and philosopher.

Through his travels, Judah was well-acquainted with many Italian humanists and with the Neapolitan Court.

* Joseph Judah, Soldier and Italian shipyard representative