MAKE A MEME View Large Image Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea.png In this graphic about early historical Israel the pink area is a rough approximate map of the near-maximum boundaries of the lands that were inhabited by Israelites or under direct central ...
View Original:Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea.png (860x1210)
Download: Original    Medium    Small Thumb
Courtesy of:commons.wikimedia.org More Like This
Keywords: Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea.png In this graphic about early historical Israel the pink area is a rough approximate map of the near-maximum boundaries of the lands that were inhabited by Israelites or under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy period of ancient history according to the Bible -- excluding states such as Damascus Geshur Ammon Moab Edom and the Philistine city-states which sometimes acknowledged some degree of Israelite suzerainty or overlordship but were never integral or directly-administered parts of the unified Israelite kingdom of David or Solomon This is basically what is referred to by the Biblical phrase from Dan to Beersheba which occurs nine times in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament -- at Judges 20 1 1 Samuel 3 20 2 Samuel 3 10 2 Samuel 17 11 2 Samuel 24 2 2 Samuel 24 15 1 Kings 4 25 1 Chronicles 21 2 and 2 Chronicles 30 5 So the passage 1 Kings 4 24-25 1 Kings 5 4-5 in Jewish verse numbering describes Solomon's larger empire with the phrase from Tiphsah to Gaza these being the northeasternmost and southwesternmost noteworthy cities that recognized some allegiance to Solomon Tiphsah was a trade outpost in northern Syria at the bend in the Upper Euphrates but the actual land where Judah and Israel dwelt in safety was described as being from Dan to Beersheba The dark red area in the graphic shows the central core of ancient Judea This area more or less the southern half of the west bank hill-chain roughly from Ramallah to Hebron or slightly north of Hebron was almost always part of a Jewish kingdom or a Jewish province within a larger empire for over a thousand years from the days of King David down to 135 CE The only cities shown on the map were capital cities or were important landmarks in demarcating ancient Israel or Judea The areas to the immediate south and east of the map frame were more sparsely inhabited with a lower proportion of settled agriculture so that boundaries were rather indefinite there The borders of the 1923-1947 British mandate territory i e the modern Israel + West Bank + Gaza are shown in grey Own based on visual inspection not scanning of a variety of sources the single most important source probably being the Administrative Districts of Solomon's Kingdom Map map no 113 on page 86 of the MacMillan Bible Atlas 3rd edition 1993 by Yohanan Aharoni Michael Avi-Yonah Anson F Rainey and Ze'ev Safrai ISBN 0025006053 and to a lesser degree the Kingdom of David Map map no 104 on page 80 2005-09 AnonMoos For a somewhat equivalent French map see File Map Israel Judea 926 BC-fr svg This graphic is also available in resizable vector PDF format on request various technical and font problems have made an SVG conversion difficult historical map Derived versions With alternate map title and elimination of map legend at bottom Image Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea-Corrected png Chinese partial translation Image Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea-Chinese png page edits 1 date/time username edit summary ---- 19 25 24 September 2005 en User AnonMoos †’Summary - additional explanation ---- 04 50 23 September 2005 en User AnonMoos other map ---- 19 12 14 September 2005 en User AnonMoos category ---- 16 05 13 September 2005 en User AnonMoos In this graphic about early historical Israel the pink area is a rough approximate map of the near-maximum boundaries of the lands that were inhabited by Israelites or under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy period en wikipedia File upload history 12 57 19 September 2005 en User AnonMoos AnonMoos en User_talk AnonMoos Talk 860x1210 59529 bytes Added arrow pointing to location of Edom 16 05 13 September 2005 en User AnonMoos AnonMoos en User_talk AnonMoos Talk 860x1210 58639 bytes In this graphic about early historical Israel the pink area is a rough approximate map of the near-maximum boundaries of the lands that were inhabited by Israelites or under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy period Maps of the Kingdom of Israel Maps of Philistia Maps of Palestine in 10th century BC
Terms of Use   Search of the Day