According to Hebrew texts, 12 tribes once occupied the Land of Israel. Formed by descendants of the patriarch Jacob (later named Israel), these tribes went on to live, fight, conquer, and be conquered ...

They received no allotment of a portion of the land like the other tribes had. This would facilitate their ministry as priests among the tribes of Israel. To make up the number twelve, the tribes ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary ...

90, No. 1/2 (2016), pp. 1-27 (27 pages) Twenty-eight years ago, F.J. van Dijk published in the New West Indian Guide what remained for a long time the only scholarly paper on the Twelve Tribes of ...

This king has been identified with the last king of Israel ... Ethiopia was the land of the powerful Prester John's kingdom, as well as the home of the ten lost tribes. Persistent rumor had ...