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The Tribe of Judah ( '''''', Tiberian Hebrew '''''') was one of the Tribes Of Israel . At its height, it was the leading tribe of the Kingdom Of Judah , and occupied most of the territory of the kingdom, except for a small region in the north east occupied by Benjamin , and an enclave towards the south west which was occupied by Simeon . The size of the territory of the tribe of Judah meant that in practice it had four distinct regions:
ORIGIN According to the Torah , the tribe was founded by Judah , the fourth son of Jacob and of Leah , from whom it took its name; however some Biblical Scholars view this as postdiction, an Eponym ous Metaphor providing an Aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.''Peake's commentary on the Bible''''Jewish Encyclopedia'' With Leah as a matriarch, Biblical scholars regard the tribe as having been believed by the text's authors to have been part of the original Israelite confederation. ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' Like the other tribes of the kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah is entirely absent from the ancient Song Of Deborah , rather than present but described as unwilling to assist in the battle between Israelites and their enemy. Traditionally, this has explained as being due to the southern kingdom being too ''far away'' to be involved in the battle, but Israel Finkelstein et al. claim the alternative explanation that the southern kingdom was simply an insignificant rural backwater at the time the poem was written. Israel Finkelstein , ''the Bible Unearthed'' CHARACTER is the symbol of the Tribe of Judah. It is often represented in Jewish Art , such as this Sculpture outside a Synagogue .]] The tribe of Judah stood apart from the others as the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, and from the tribe came the kingdom's rulers (though not the later view this as Postdiction , since they date the poem to a few centuries after the Song Of Deborah , to roughly 800-700 BC. With the Davidic Line thus being from the tribe, the tribe counted David among its members, as well as his ancestors Boaz , Obed , and Jesse . According to Jewish belief, since the Blessing appears to promise that Judah would always rule the kingdom, the (Jewish) Messiah had to be a member of the tribe; in the Genealogy Of Jesus , according to the Gospel Of Matthew , Jesus was from the Davidic line, and hence was Ethnically a member of the tribe of Judah. Many other important leaders were also from the tribe. Some of the most important Literary Prophets , including Isaiah , as well as Amos , Habakkuk , Joel , Micah , Obadiah , Zechariah , and Zephaniah , hailed from Judah. Later, during the Babylonian Exile , the Exilarch s (officially recognised community leaders) were from the tribe, and when the Exile ended, the tribe included Zerubbabel (the leader of the first Jews to return to what became Judea ), Shealtiel (a somewhat mysterious figure), and Nehemiah (one of the earliest and most prominent Achamenid -appointed governors of Judea). In the time of Roman Rule , all the holders of the office of Nasi (''prince'') after Shemaiah , were rumoured to be from the tribe of Judah, since they were all descended from Hillel , who was rumoured to have maternal lineage from the Davidic line (in Judaism, maternal lineage is more important to ethnicity). Symbol of the tribe of Judah : "Judah" FATE As part of the kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah survived the ) SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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