Israelite

Priestly handbook from Sinai. Sacrifices, festivals, food laws, and the holiness code. The book that teaches I…

David's reign as king. Conquests and a household torn apart by his own sin with Bathsheba. The covenant with D…

The setting apart of a person, place, or thing to God, and the moral transformation that follows. In Christian…

A silver coin and weight, about 11 grams, used to pay the Temple tax. Thirty silver shekels was the price paid…

The standard dry measure of ancient Israel — about 22 litres of grain, a large basket. The prophet Amos rails …

A small dry measure, about 2.2 litres — the daily ration of manna in the wilderness. One-tenth of an ephah, ro…