Webthe israelites left an extraordinary religious and ethical legacy. They were some of the first monotheists, worshipping a single god, whom they referred to as yahweh. Their religious texts from the ancient world, including the hebrew scriptures, served as the foundational. Webit discusses israel and judah in their levantine context, while referring also to the question of their possible unity; Webisrael's past in present research: Essays on ancient israelite historiography on jstor. Webthe history of ancient israel is best known to most people from the narratives in the hebrew bible/old testament. There, however, the name “israel” covers a wide diversity. Webthis chapter investigates the ways that israel constructed its cultural identity in relation to its neighbors, and how its cultural, religious, and ethnic boundaries were contested and.
