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Esau marries a Canaanite woman and is therefore excluded from the official lineage, whereas Jacob agrees to choose a wife within his father’s family (Genesis 28:1-5). So Jacob preserves the genetic purity of the family: he takes the name of Israel, and from then on, all his descendants are called “children of Israel.”
Mauro Biglino • Gods of the Bible
As temperatures run high, Zionist policy undergoes profound changes. On May 11, 1942, in New York’s Biltmore Hotel, Zionism’s leaders abandon the old idea of long-term organic growth and endorse the demand to establish a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine as soon as possible. In the weeks preceding and following the Biltmore convention, the Palmach
... See moreAri Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
In twelve years’ time, in Ein Harod, the first elite Anglo-Jewish commando unit will be founded. The unit will raid Arab villages at night, killing some of their civilian inhabitants.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Subsequently, Joshua destroyed them and they only survived in the territory of Gaza, Ashdod, and Gath (the city of the giant Goliath), perhaps not by chance.
Mauro Biglino • Gods of the Bible




“It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”
Douglas J. Moo • Romans (The NIV Application Commentary)
The armor was heavy and David discarded it, rushing to combat in shepherd’s garb.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
עמוס לוינברג – ויקיפדיה
1 Chronicles 13 David consulted with the commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds, with every leader. 2David said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our kindred who remain in all the land of Israel, including the priests and Levites in the cities that
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