Was Judah the north

Answer 1

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According to The Bible, the northern tribes broke away from the kingdom of Israel, with its capital in Jerusalem, to found a kingdom called Israel. The remnant former kingdom, still based around Jerusalem, took the name of Judah. If that sounds rather puzzling, many scholars believe there never was a united kingdom of Israel. The respected Israeli archaeologist, Israel Finkelstein, says that the two kingdoms were always separate, with their own separate cultures and dialects of the Hebrew language.

Answer 2

No, Judah was located in the southern part of ancient Israel, while Israel (also known as the Northern Kingdom) was in the northern part. Judah was one of the two kingdoms that emerged after the United Kingdom of Israel split following the reign of King Solomon.

Answer 3

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ANSWER: When the complete kingdom of Israel split, Judah and Benjamin were in the southern kingdom known as Judah. The other ten tribes formed a new kingdom in the north known as Israel.

Answer 4

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Israel, was larger, more fertile and much more prosperous than Judah. Far from an invasion of Israelites coming across the River Jordan in the south, near Jericho, the archaeological evidence shows that Hebrew settlement began in the north and slowly expanded south towards Judah, where settlement was relatively late and sparse.

The Bible portrays Judah and Israel as equal in economic and military strength, in fact both initially ruled from Jerusalem in Judah. Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, says the belief in the pre-eminence of Judah arises because the Deuteronomistic Historian (author of the Book of Deuteronomy and the history from the Book of Joshua to Second Kings) treats Israel in a highly negative way, making every effort to diminish its importance and delegitimise its very existence. He says archaeology has given us a completely different story, or at least a completely different perspective on Judahite affairs.

In the tenth century BCE, when there should have been a mighty kingdom spreading right through the Levant and dominating the region, Jerusalem was no more than an Amarna-type highlands stronghold, and the Judahite countryside was very sparsely settled. There were no human resources available for conquest and domination of large territories.

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Judah was a minor rural backwater until the final conquest in 722 BCE of Samaria, the capital of what had been the kingdom of Israel. Its sudden prosperity is attributed both to Immigration from Israel and to the integration of the Judah economy with Assyria. In the seventh century BCE, King Josiah seems to have controlled as far west as Lachish in the Shephelah foothills, and south to the Beersheba Valley and possibly farther. No evidence has yet been found as to how far north he ruled. The population of Judah at this time probably did not exceed 75,000, with around 20% of these in Jerusalem.

As for language, Keel and Uehlinger (Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel) say the Israelite language was closer to Phoenician (both of them being major Canaanite 'dialects') than to the Judahite language, which was a 'peripheral', conservative dialect of Canaanite, comparable to Ammonite and Moabite. Artefacts discovered in marginal territory can be sometimes distinguished as Israelite or Judahite (or Phoenician) based on the dialect in the text.

Keel and Uehlinger say that recent Old Testament research, at least so far as this is carried out by German-speaking scholars interested in religio-historical questions, generally assumes that the religion of preexilic Israel and Judah is to be characterised as thoroughly polytheistic. There were no strict boundaries between the Israelite/Judahite religion and that of its neighbours, especially the Phoenicians (but probably also the Arameans and Gileadites, according to the evidence found at Tell Deir Alla) at the end of the ninth century and during the eighth century. The god Yahweh originally came from southeast Palestine or northwest Arabia, and is evident earlier in Judah than in Israel.

Answer 5

No, the nation of Judah (consisting of the tribes Benjamin and Judah) was in the southern part of the Levant, while the nation of Israel (the other ten tribes) was in the north.

Answer 6

The Kingdom of Judah which includes Jerusalem made up the Southern Kingdom and Israel made up the Northern Kingdom as far north as Damascus when the country was divided.