Idea of the Return in Judaism

The tribes of Israel were unified and held together first by their beliefs, but they clearly lacked many of the elements considered essential to the concept of a nation. The tribes of Israel never acted long as a unit prior to the time of the rise of the monarchy in Palestine. There was before that time only single tribes, and occasionally small groups of tribes intervening in historical events. The term "nation" used to refer to the Israelites cannot be seen as having the same sense when used for other nations. The tribes did not all come together until the occupation of the land on the soil of Pales

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son of Nun, servant to Moses. The Bible says little about the man, but it is clear about his strategy, indicating that the Israelites advanced from three directions, the south, the north, and Transjordan in the east. At the time of the Israelite conquest, a period of civilization was drawing to a close in Palestine known as the Bronze Age, now being superseded by the Iron Age. The two periods are classified archaeologically on the basis of their cultural inheritance and especially in terms of the kinds and forms of their pottery, much of which is found in fragments and remains that have lasted thousands of years. Excavations in Palestine provide a clear picture of the Bronze Age civilization in that area, and it evolved in various stages. There was an early Bronze Age in the third millennium B.C., followed by a middle Bronze Age in the first four centuries of the second millennium B.C., between 1550 and 1200 B.C. An urban culture developed during this period, with cities that were not in fact cities for living but walled-in strongholds and storehouses of small size with a rather rambling jumble of small houses and an irregular mass of narrow lanes, usually with one square immediately inside the city gate as the scene of pub
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