+- Jewish Forums (https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum)
+-- Forum: Main Forums (https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Israel (https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=28)
+--- Thread: Israel The Jewish people including Returnee-Exiles are native to the Land of Israel (/showthread.php?tid=1386)
The Jewish people including Returnee-Exiles are native to the Land of Israel - Robert - 07-08-2024
The typical manner in which the world unfortunately sees the Jewish people is incorrectly only as immigrants to Israel from other countries.
That is misleading because in ancestry the Jews came from the land of Israel having been substantially though not fully, exiled by Roman persecution.
Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion.
The name "Jew" (Yehudi) originates from Judah son of Israel (Jacob),
thus later the tribe of Judah,
then the portion of the land of Israel allotted to that tribe,
and later to the Kingdom of Judah.
"Jew" thus also refers in ancestry to a citizen of the Kingdom of Judah.
Therefore the Jewish people have Judah heritage !
The Jewish people’s previous sovereign states in the land of Israel, from which we see that modern Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral-homeland:
The last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel prior to modern Israel:
Post-Biblical history records the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom, including what is now wrongly referred to as the "West Bank" (proper name Judah and Samaria), Gaza, and Golan Heights, with its capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Hasmonean_kingdom.jpg
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel aka Samaria, including part of the "West Bank", and Golan Heights, last capital Samaria; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 720 BCE / 1383 BH:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingdoms_of_Israel_and_Judah_map_830.svg
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Judah, including the rest of the "West Bank", capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 586 BCE / 1244 BH:
(See the latter-linked map.)
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel - United, including the "West Bank", Gaza, and Golan Heights, capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 1050 BCE / 1723 BH and 930 BCE / 1599 BH:
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Golan-Heights-part-of-the-ancient-Kingdom-of-Israel-in-the-time-of-the-United-Monarchy
Map of the Tribes of Israel Confederation - Apportionment of Canaan; about 1200 BCE / 1877 BH to 1050 BCE / 1723 BH:
https://en-academic.com/pictures/enwiki/49/12_Tribes_of_Israel_Map.svg
[Note: The map shows a separate area for the tribe of Simeon, but this is not correct for Simeon were not allowed their own portion, but were instead incorporated within Judah.]
Examples of archaeological evidence:
List of proposed Assyrian references to northern Kingdom of Israel-Samaria (Samaria was its capital) - See toward the bottom of the webpage, at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)
The Merneptah Stele:
Quote:“The Merneptah Stele - also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah, is an inscription by Merneptah, a pharaoh in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE. [...] a majority of scholars translate a set of hieroglyphs in line 27 as “Israel” ”.
Extract source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merneptah_Stele
i. Coins from the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmonean_coinage
ii. Coins from the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=prutah+menorah&category=1&images=1¤cy=usd&order=0
The Temple Mount sifting project:
Discovered in rubble from Temple Mount - Seal of priestly family of Immer from 7th century B.C.E., First Temple - see page 52:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311435408_Relics_in_rubble_The_temple_mount_sifting_project
"Western Wall, The":
By the way, what is the Western Wall (the western courtyard foundation wall), if not evidence of the Jewish Temple of ancient Israel / Judah.
Or, ask those cynics what is it then - Scotch Mist?