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The Judea and Samaria Area (Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, romanized: Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; Arabic: يهودا والسامرة, romanized: Yahūda wa-s-Sāmara) is an administrative division administered by the state of Israel.
Jul 23, 2024 · The territory, excluding East Jerusalem, is also known within Israel by its biblical names, Judaea and Samaria.
Nov 18, 2020 · Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” – these are the last documented words Jesus spoke to his disciples before He ascended into heaven (Acts 1:8).
Jun 11, 2024 · Samaria, the central region of ancient Palestine. Samaria extends for about 40 miles (65 km) from north to south and 35 miles (56 km) from east to west. It is bounded by Galilee on the north and by Judaea on the south; on the west was the Mediterranean Sea and on the east the Jordan River.
Samaria (/ s ə ˈ m æ r i ə,-ˈ m ɛər i ə /) is the Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Shomron (Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן ), used as a historical and biblical name for the central region of Israel, bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north.
Jul 19, 2024 · Judaea, the southernmost of the three traditional divisions of ancient Palestine; the other two were Galilee in the north and Samaria in the centre. No clearly marked boundary divided Judaea from Samaria, but the town of Beersheba was traditionally the southernmost limit.
Feb 28, 2012 · The historic lands of Judea and Samaria are home to many holy sites for Jews, Christians and Muslims, as well as the tiny Samaritan faith.
Feb 28, 2024 · The terms Judea and Samaria date back to biblical times and appear numerous times in the Jewish Bible and the New Testament. The 1922 League of Nations’ decision to create the Mandate for Palestine allocated the entire region of Judea and Samaria for Jewish settlement. From 1949-1967, the region was illegally occupied by Jordan which cleansed ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Ancient Samaria and Jerusalem had a lot in common in the ninth and eighth centuries B.C.E. Both were part of David and Solomon’s United Kingdom of Israel in the tenth century, and both became capitals when it split into the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel.
Dec 6, 2018 · On his way from Judea to Galilee, Jesus deliberately cut through Samaria, where he had the now-famous encounter with the woman at the well. That a Jewish man would talk to a woman was amazing; that he would talk to a Samaritan woman was unheard of. Jesus even revealed to her that he was the Messiah.
