Samuel

male
Jewish, Saul the King, land of Israel, AncientIsrael, books of Samuel, King Saul…Judge of ancient Israel, Kingdom of Israel
Samuel or Shmu'el is an important leader of ancient Israel in the Book(s) of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. His status, as viewed by rabbinical...

Deborah

female
Jewish, AncientIsrael, Poetic form, Given names, Heber, Hebrew poetry…Timeline of women in ancient warfare, Biblical women in ancient warfare, royal house of Israel
Deborah or Dvora was a prophetess and the fourth Judge and only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the Old Testament (Tanakh). Her story is...
Gershon Galil

Gershon Galil

male
Israeli, The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah, Brill Academic Publisher, Haifa, Israel, ancient Near East, AncientIsrael…Kingdom of Israel, ancient Judah
Gershon Galil is the senior lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern history and chairman of the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa,...
Abraham Mapu

Abraham Mapu

male, deceased (1867)
Jewish, Hebrew novel, AncientIsrael, French Romanticism, Modern Hebrew writer, biblical
Abraham Mapu was a Lithuanian-born Hebrew novelist. For many years he was an impoverished, itinerant schoolmaster. Mapu gained financial security...