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 ...

having Levi and Joseph on the list while retaining Menasseh and losing Ephraim and Dan. How were the twelve tribes of Israel formed? The answer is that it depends on the context. When speaking of ...

Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he was leaving Padn-Aram and blessed him. Jacob produced twelve sons, each of whom became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

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 ...