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When did the Israelites become Jews?
what era were is this in the bible ? Thank You

Answer 1

1__________From the beginning!!! Israelites... means: "An Israelite is a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of the Biblical patriarch Jacob who was renamed Israel by God in the book of Genesis, 32:28. The Israelites were a group of Hebrews, as described in the Hebrew Bible. There are modern historical debates about the origins of the Hebrews/Israelites."_____________

2_____________"The Jews are a people who trace their descent from the biblical Israelites and who are united by the religion called Judaism. They are not a race; Jewish identity is a mixture of ethnic, national, and religious elements. An individual may become part of the Jewish people by conversion to Judaism; but a born Jew who rejects Judaism or adopts another religion does not entirely lose his or her Jewish identity.

The word Jew is derived from the kingdom of Judah, which included 2 of the 12 Israelite tribes. The name Israel referred to the people as a whole and especially to the northern kingdom of 10 tribes. Today it is used as a collective name for all Jewry and since 1948 for the Jewish state. (Citizens of the state of Israel are called Israelis; not all of them are Jews.) In the Bible, Hebrew is used by foreign peoples as a name for the Israelites; today it is applied only to the Hebrew Language."_____________

Answer 2

After the reign of Solomon, the Israelites split into two kingdoms. The Southern Kingdom was dominated by the tribe of Judah and was called "Judah". The Northern tribe assumed the name "Israel" because they represented the majority of tribes. (They were also called "Ephraim" or "Samaria" informally.)

In 722 BCE, Israel fell to the armies of Assyria. Assyria's method for dealing with captives was to mix the populations of its various conquered territories to prevent them from forming new identities and revolting. Although some Israelites remained among the mongrelized community, the rest lost their identity completely, becoming the "Ten Lost Tribes".

150 years later, Assyria had fallen to the new kingdom of Babylon, and so did Judah. But the Babylonian occupation strategy was different. They took the leaders and the intellectuals of Judah to live in isolated communities inside Babylon, leaving the land to the farmers. This enabled the culture and faith of Judahites to survive and develop intact in exile.

In the Fifth Century BCE, Judahites were allowed to return to their kingdom under the Persians. Those who did rebuilt as they could, but the name Israelite did not apply to them anymore. Later under the control of Macedonia, Ptolemaic Egypt, Antiochene Chaldea and even themselves, they eventually came under Roman rule and their land was Latinized to "Judea". "Jew" is an Anglicized form of "Judean".

Answer 3

The earliest reference I see in the Bible is in the Prophet Jeremiah, whose prophecies immediately preceded the exile into Babylon. I believe the word is derived from the name of the Tribe of Judah, which was the southern Kingdom, and the only remaining Kingdom, the northern Kingdom of Israel having been carried into captivity about 120 years earlier by the Assyrians.

Answer 4

The book of Esther in the old testament.

Answer 5

Only the descendents of Judah, one of the sons of Jacob (Israel), are Jewish.

Answer 6

when god told jacob that his name was to be israel. its in genesis before moses but after noah

Answer 7

THEY HAVE ALLWAYS BEEN JEWS IM PRETTY SURE OF THIS