The 12 tribes of Israel, named after Jacob's sons, are central to the Hebrew Bible narrative. Scholars question the ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary ...

The twelve tribes of Israel, therefore, collectively carry the name of their father. Jacob had twelve sons with his four wives. With Leah, he had Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon.

in which Jacob – now named Israel – pronounces his parting blessings over his twelve sons, the leaders of the twelve tribes. Jacob rebukes the character flaws in some of his sons. But he ...

“Each of the twelve tribes ... where Jacob gives blessings to his sons (and two of his grandsons) whose descendants will become “the tribes of Israel.” And a little later, the Zohar makes ...