Few people have noticed, or are willing to acknowledge, that the - TopicsExpress



          

Few people have noticed, or are willing to acknowledge, that the land of Israel of BIBLICAL TEXTS did not include Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, or other surrounding areas, but rather only Samaria and a number of adjacent areas--in other words, the land in the northern kingdom of Israel.....None of the authors of the books of the Bible would have ever dreamed of calling the territory around Gods city the Land of Israel. For this reason, 2 Chronicles recounts that He broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the LAND OF ISRAEL. Then he returned to Jerusalem(34:7). The land of Israel, known to have been home to many more sinners than was the land of Judah, appears in eleven additional verses, most with rather unflattering connotations.(The Invention of the Land of Israel)
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 04:07:26 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015