Genesis

• Creation
• Adam and Eve
  Adam and Eve
  Adam and Eve were, according to the Genesis creation narratives, the first human couple to inhabit Earth, created by YHWH, the God of the ancient Hebrews...
  
   (covers creation and fall of man)
• The Fall of Man
• Cain and Abel
  Cain and Abel
  In the Hebrew Bible, Cain and Abel are two sons of Adam and Eve. The Qur'an mentions the story, calling them the two sons of Adam only....
  
  
• Adam's descendants
  Generations of Adam
  "Generations of Adam" is a concept in in the Hebrew Bible. It is typically taken as name of Adam's line of descent going through Seth. Another view equates the generations of Adam with material about a second line of descent starting with Cain in Genesis 4, while Genesis 5 is taken as the...
  
  
• The Nephilim
  Nephilim
  The Nephilim are the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" in Genesis 6:4, or giants who inhabit Canaan in Numbers 13:33. A similar word with different vowel-sounds is used in Ezekiel 32:27 to refer to dead Philistine warriors....
  
  
• Noah and the Flood
• The Covenant of Noah
• The Curse of Ham
  Ham, son of Noah
  Ham , according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was a son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.- Hebrew Bible :The story of Ham is related in , King James Version:...
  
  
• Sons of Noah
  Sons of Noah
  The Seventy Nations or Sons of Noah is an extensive list of descendants of Noah appearing in of the Hebrew Bible, representing an ethnology from an Iron Age Levantine perspective...
  
  
• The tower of Babel
  Tower of Babel
  The Tower of Babel , according to the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built in the plain of Shinar .According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where...
  
  
• Abram's migration
• Partition between Abram and Lot
• Chedorlaomer
  Chedorlaomer
  Chedorlaomer "a handful of sheaves", was a king of Elam according to the Hebrew Bible book of Genesis Chapter 14. He ruled fourteen years, from the East in southwestern Persia, occupying the regions east of the Jordan river, in the days of Abram...
  
  
• Abraham and Melchizedek
• The Covenant of Abram
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Abraham, Sarah, and Pharaoh, as characters)
• Hagar and Ishmael
• The first circumcision
• Sodom and Gomorrah
  Sodom and Gomorrah
  Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and later expounded upon throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and Deuterocanonical sources....
  
  
• Lot's drunkenness
• The cave of Machpelah
  Cave of the Patriarchs
  The Cave of the Patriarchs or the Cave of Machpelah , is known by Muslims as the Sanctuary of Abraham or Ibrahimi Mosque ....
  
  
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech, as characters)
• The Binding of Isaac
  Binding of Isaac
  The Binding of Isaac Akedah or Akeidat Yitzchak in Hebrew and Dhabih in Arabic, is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah...
  
  
• Keturah's sons
  Keturah
  According to the Hebrew Bible, Keturah or Ketura was the woman whom Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, married after the death of his wife, Sarah. Keturah bore Abraham six sons, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah....
  
  
• Isaac and Rebekah
• Jacob and Esau
  Jacob and Esau
  The Book of Genesis contains the story of Jacob and Esau focusing on the sale of Esau's birthright to Jacob and the conflict that had spawned between their descendant nations because of this sale....
  
  
• The Covenant of Isaac
• A wife confused for a sister (featuring Isaac, Rebekah, and Abimelech, as characters)
• The blessing of Isaac
• The exile of Jacob
• Jacob's Ladder
  Jacob's Ladder (Bible)
  Jacob's Ladder is a ladder to heaven, described in the Book of Genesis, that the biblical patriarch Jacob dreams about during his flight from his brother Esau.-Source:...
  
  
• Jacob and Rachel/The sheep and the stone
• Rachel and Leah
• Jacob's children
• The blemished flock
• The stones of Galeed
• Jacob's gifts to Esau
• Jacob wrestles with an angel
• Jacob's reconciliation with Esau
• The rape of Dinah
• Reuben and Bilhah
• The birth of Benjamin
• The list of Edomite Kings
• Joseph enslaved
• Judah and Tamar
• Potiphar's wife
  Potiphar's Wife
  Potiphar's Wife is a 1931 British romance film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Nora Swinburne, Laurence Olivier and Guy Newall. It is also known as Her Strange Desire. It was based on a play by Edgar C...
  
  
• The butler and the baker
• Pharaoh's Dreams
• Joseph and his brothers
  Joseph and His Brothers
  Joseph and His Brothers is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis, from Jacob to Joseph , setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period...
  
  
• Israel's migration
• Ephraim's pre-eminence
• The blessing of Jacob
  Blessing of Jacob
  The Blessing of Jacob is a poem that appears in Genesis at . Jacob had twelve sons, each of whom is mentioned.The poem presents an opinion of the merits and attributes of each of the Tribes of Israel, and so can be compared with the Blessing of Moses, which has the same theme...
  
  
• The burial of Jacob
• The death of Joseph's generation

Exodus

See main article: Book of Exodus.

• The Hebrew midwives
• Moses' exile
• The Burning Bush
  Burning bush
  The burning bush is an object described by the Book of Exodus as being located on Mount Sinai; according to the narrative, the bush was on fire, but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name...
  
  
• The Signs of Moses
• Zipporah at the inn
  Zipporah at the inn
  Zipporah at the inn is the name given to an episode alluded to in three verses of Exodus. It is one of the more unusual, curious, and much-debated passages of the Pentateuch....
  
  
• Let my people go
• Bricks without straw
  Bricks without straw
  Bricks without straw is a phrase which refers to a task which must be done without appropriate resources.-Origin:In Exodus 5 , Moses and Aaron meet with Pharaoh and deliver God's message, "Let my people go"...
  
  
• With a strong hand and an outstretched arm
  With a strong hand and an outstretched arm
  With a strong hand and an outstretched arm is a phrase in Judaic tradition representing God's use of his power on behalf of the Jews.-Origin:...
  
  
• Aaron's rod becomes a serpent
• The Plagues of Egypt
  Plagues of Egypt
  The Plagues of Egypt , also called the Ten Plagues or the Biblical Plagues, were ten calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, Israel's God, Yahweh, inflicted upon Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to release the ill-treated Israelites from slavery. Pharaoh capitulated after the tenth...
  
  
• The Passover
  Passover
  Passover is a Jewish holiday and festival. It commemorates the story of the Exodus, in which the ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt...
  
  
• The Exodus
  The Exodus
  The Exodus is the story of the departure of the Israelites from ancient Egypt described in the Hebrew Bible.Narrowly defined, the term refers only to the departure from Egypt described in the Book of Exodus; more widely, it takes in the subsequent law-givings and wanderings in the wilderness...
  
  
• Passage of the Red Sea
  Passage of the Red Sea
  The Crossing of the Red Sea is a passage in the Biblical narrative of the escape of the Israelites from the pursuing Egyptians in the Book of Exodus . This story is also mentioned in the Qur'an in Surah 26: Al-Shu'ara' in verses 60-67...
  
  
• The Song of the sea
  Song of the sea
  The Song of the Sea is a poem that appears in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible, at . It is followed in verses 20 and 21 by a much shorter song sung by Miriam and the other women...
  
  
• Massah U-Meribah
• Amalek
  Amalek
  The Amalekites are a people mentioned a number of times in the Hebrew Bible. They are considered to be descended from an ancestor Amalek....
  
  
• Jethro
  Jethro
  In the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible, Jethro |Shu-ayb]]) is Moses' father-in-law, a Kenite shepherd and priest of Midian. He is also revered as a prophet in his own right in the Druze religion, and considered an ancestor of the Druze.-In Exodus:...
  
  
• Encamping at Sinai
• The Ten Commandments (first set)
• The Covenant Code
  Covenant Code
  The Covenant Code, or alternatively Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus - . Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai...
  
  
• The Golden Calf
• The Ten Commandments (second set)
  Ritual Decalogue
  The Ritual Decalogue is a list of laws in the Book of Exodus, . These laws are similar to the Covenant Code and are followed by the phrase ten commandments...
  
  

Leviticus

Leviticus

The Book of Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah ....

See main article: Leviticus

Leviticus

The Book of Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah ....

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• The Priestly Code
  Priestly Code
  The Priestly Code is the name given, by academia, to the body of laws expressed in the Torah which do not form part of the Holiness Code, the Covenant Code, the Ritual Decalogue, or the Ethical Decalogue. The Priestly Code constitutes the majority of Leviticus, as well as some of the laws...
  
  
• The Holiness Code
  Holiness code
  The Holiness Code is a term used in biblical criticism to refer to Leviticus 17-26, and is so called due to its highly repeated use of the word Holy. It has no special traditional religious significance and traditional Jews and Christians do not regard it as having any distinction from any other...
  
  
• The Ordination of Aaron and His Sons
• The Death of Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10:1-20)
• A Blasphemer Stoned (Leviticus 24:10-23)

Numbers

Book of Numbers

The Book of Numbers is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah/Pentateuch....

See main article: Numbers

Book of Numbers

The Book of Numbers is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah/Pentateuch....

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• The Israelite Census
• Departing Sinai
• The shower of quails
• Snow-white Miriam
• The report of the spies
  The Twelve Spies
  In the Book of Numbers, The Twelve Spies were a group of Israelite chieftains, one from each of the Twelve Tribes, who were dispatched by Moses to scout out the Land of Canaan for 40 days during the time the Israelites were in the desert...
  
  
• Korah, Dathan and Abiram
• Aaron's rod sprouts and bears fruit
• Waters of Meribah
• The short route to Canaan
• The Nehushtan
  Nehushtan
  The Nehushtan , in the Hebrew Bible, was a sacred object in the form of a snake of brass upon a pole.The priestly source of the Torah says that Moses used a 'fiery serpent' to cure the Israelites from snakebites...
  
  
• The conquest of the eastern route
• Balaam and the Donkey
  Balaam
  Balaam is a diviner in the Torah, his story occurring towards the end of the Book of Numbers. The etymology of his name is uncertain, and discussed below. Every ancient reference to Balaam considers him a non-Israelite, a prophet, and the son of Beor, though Beor is not so clearly identified...
  
  
• The Heresy of Peor
  Heresy of Peor
  The heresy of Peor is an event related in the Torah at Numbers 25:1-15. Back references to the event occur in Numbers 25:18 and 31:16, Deuteronomy 4:3, Joshua 22:17, Hosea 9:10; Psalm 106:28...
  
  
• The appointment of Joshua
• The War against the Midianites
  Midian war
  The Midian War documented in the Hebrew Bible, Numbers , was intended to exterminate the Midianites, who had "led the people of Israel to sin against God". Moses commanded one thousand males from each of the twelve tribes of Israel to destroy the cities and the warriors of Midian...
  
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• Machir, Reuben, and Gad, in Gilead and Jazeer
  Transjordan (Bible)
  The Transjordan is used to describe an area of land in the Southern Levant lying east of the Jordan River that is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The area is said to form part of an ill-defined area known as the land of Israel...
  
  
• The distribution of Canaan

Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy

The Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the Jewish Torah/Pentateuch...

• Moses Begins to Retell Wilderness Stories, Deuteronomy 1-3
• The Deuteronomic Code
  Deuteronomic Code
  The Deuteronomic Code is the name given by academics to the law code within the Book of Deuteronomy. It contains "a variety of topics including religious ceremonies and ritual purity, civil and criminal law, and the conduct of war"...
  
  
• The Song of Moses
  Song of Moses
  The Song of Moses in this article relates to the name sometimes given to the poem that appears in Deuteronomy of the Hebrew Bible written/orated just prior to Moses' death atop Mount Nebo....
  
  , Deuteronomy 32
• The Blessing of Moses
  Blessing of Moses
  The Blessing of Moses is the name sometimes given to a poem that appears in Deuteronomy . The poem presents an opinion of the merits and attributes of each of the Tribes of Israel, and so can be compared with the Blessing of Jacob, which has the same theme...
  
  , Deuteronomy 33
• The Death of Moses, Deuteronomy 34

Joshua

Book of Joshua

The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament. Its 24 chapters tell of the entry of the Israelites into Canaan, their conquest and division of the land under the leadership of Joshua, and of serving God in the land....

• Charge from God to Joshua. Joshua takes charge, 1:1-18
• Rahab and the Spies
  Rahab
  Rahab, was, according to the Book of Joshua, a woman who lived in Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites in capturing the city...
  
  
• The Fall of Jericho
• The Sun Stands Still

Judges

Book of Judges

The Book of Judges is the seventh book of the Hebrew bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its title describes its contents: it contains the history of Biblical judges, divinely inspired prophets whose direct knowledge of Yahweh allows them to act as decision-makers for the Israelites, as...

• Israel Disobeys God, 2:1-23

• Othniel
  Othniel
  Othniel is the first of the Biblical Judges.-Family:Othniel was related to Caleb, as his father Kenaz was either Caleb's brother or Caleb's father; both are plausible interpretations of Joshua 15:17. The Talmud argues that Othniel was Caleb's brother...
  
  's Campaign as Judge, 3:7-11

• Ehud
  Ehud
  Ehud ben‑Gera is described in the biblical Book of Judges as a judge who was sent by God to deliver the Israelites from Moabite domination.-Biblical narrative:...
  
   gains the victory over Moabite King Eglon
  Eglon (king)
  Eglon was the king of Moab who suppressed Israel in the time of the Judges.He was the head of the confederacy of Moab, Ammon and Amalek in their assault. One day, Ehud came presenting a customary tribute and tricked Eglon and stabbed him with his sword, but when Ehud attempted to draw the sword...
  
   3:12-30

• Deborah
  Deborah
  Deborah was a prophetess of Yahweh the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel, counselor, warrior, and the wife of Lapidoth according to the Book of Judges chapters 4 and 5....
  
  , 4:1-24
• The Song of Deborah, 5:1-31

• The Lord Appears to Gideon
  Gideon (Judges)
  Gideon or Gedeon , which means "Destroyer," "Mighty warrior," or "Feller " was judge of the Hebrews. His story is recorded in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible....
  
  , 6:1-40
• The Sign of the Fleece and Gideon's Three Hundred, 7:1-25
• Midian
  Midian
  Midian , Madyan , or Madiam is a geographical place and a people mentioned in the Bible and in the Qur'an. It is believed to be in northwest Saudi Arabia on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba and the northern Red Sea...
  
   Subdued, 8:1-35

• Abmilech
  Abimelech (Judges)
  In the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, Abimelech was a son of the great judge Gideon ; thus his name אֲבִימֶלֶךְ / אֲבִימָלֶךְ can best be interpreted "my father, the king". "Abimelech", a name claiming the inherited right to rule, was also a common name of the Philistine kings...
  
  , son of Gideon (Jerubbaal) made king at Shechem
  Shechem
  Shechem was a Canaanite city mentioned in the Amarna letters, and is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as an Israelite city of the tribe of Manasseh and the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel...
  
   after destroying his own family, 9:1-6
• Jotham
  Jotham
  Jotham was the youngest of Gideon's seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech . When "the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of Millo" were gathered together "by the plain of the pillar" "that was in Shechem, to make Abimelech king," from one of the...
  
  , the lone survivor and brother, tells The Parable of the Trees. He speaks against Abimelech then flees, 9:7-21
• Shechem betrays Abimelech. He attacks and destroys the city.
• Abimelech captures the town of Thebez, but he is mortally wounded by a woman. 9:22-57

• Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. He judged Israel for twenty-three years, 10:1,2

• Jephthah and His Vow, 11: 1-40

• The Birth of Samson, 13:1-25
• Samson's Phlistine Wife, 14:1-20
• The Philistine's Defeated, 15: 1-20
• Samson and Delilah
  Delilah
  Delilah appears only in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges 16, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall...
  
  , 16:1-31
• The Death of Samson, 17:1-13

• Micah's Idloatry
  Micah's Idol
  The narrative of Micah's Idol, recounted in the Book of Judges, concerns the Tribe of Dan, their conquest of Laish, and the sanctuary that was subsequently created there.-Biblical narrative:...
  
  , 18: 1-31
• The Levite's Concubine and Gibeah's Crime, 19:1-30
• Battle of Gibeah
  Battle of Gibeah
  The Battle of Gibeah is an episode in the Book of Judges. The battle was triggered by an incident of gross inhospitality on part of the Tribe of Benjamin, in which a concubine belonging to a man from the Tribe of Levi was raped to death by a rowdy mob, after the Levite had offered his concubine to...
  
  . War with the Benjamites, 20:1-48
• Wives for the Benjamites, 21:1-25

1 & 2 Samuel

Books of Samuel

The Books of Samuel in the Jewish bible are part of the Former Prophets, , a theological history of the Israelites affirming and explaining the Torah under the guidance of the prophets.Samuel begins by telling how the prophet Samuel is chosen by...

• Hannah and the Birth of Samuel
• David and Goliath
  David
  David was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, an ancestor of Jesus Christ through both Saint Joseph and Mary...
  
  
• David and Jonathan
  David and Jonathan
  David and Jonathan were heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, whose covenant was recorded favourably in the books of Samuel. Jonathan was the son of Saul, king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and David was the son of Jesse of Bethlehem and Jonathan's presumed rival for the crown...
  
  
• David and Bathsheba
  David and Bathsheba
  David and Bathsheba is a 1951 historical Technicolor epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, from a screenplay by Philip Dunne. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Leon Shamroy...
  
  
• Absalom's Conspiracy
  Absalom
  According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur. describes him as the most handsome man in the kingdom...
  
  

1 & 2 Kings

Books of Kings

The Book of Kings presents a narrative history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, a period of some 400 years...

• The Wisdom of Solomon
  Solomon
  Solomon , according to the Book of Kings and the Book of Chronicles, a King of Israel and according to the Talmud one of the 48 prophets, is identified as the son of David, also called Jedidiah in 2 Samuel 12:25, and is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, and the final king before...
  
  
• Solomon builds the Temple
  Solomon's Temple
  Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was the main temple in ancient Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount , before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II after the Siege of Jerusalem of 587 BCE....
  
  
• The Queen of Sheba
• Elijah on Mount Carmel
• Elijah Taken up to Heaven
• The Sunnamite's Son
• The Healing of Naaman
  Naaman
  Naaman was a commander of the armies of Ben-Hadad II in the time of Joram, king of Israel. He is mentioned in of the Tanakh. According to the narrative, he was afflicted with tzaraath...
  
  
• Hezekiah
  Hezekiah
  Hezekiah was the son of Ahaz and the 14th king of Judah. Edwin Thiele has concluded that his reign was between c. 715 and 686 BC. He is also one of the most prominent kings of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible....
  
  

Jeremiah

Book of Jeremiah

The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve....

• Call of Jeremiah, 1:1-10
• Jeremiah sees an almond rod then a boiling pot, 1:11-19
• Jeremiah's message at the temple gate, 7:1-34
• Jeremiah buys a linen waistband and puts it in the crevice of a rock near the Euphrates. 13:1-11
• The LORD tells Jeremiah that he can't get married or have children, 16:1-21
• Jeremiah stands at the city gate proclaiming the Sabbath's importance 17:19-27
• Jeremiah visits the potter, 18:1-23
• Jeremiah takes a potter's clay jar and some of the elders to the valley of Ben-hinnon, 19:1-15
• Pashur, the chief officer in the house of the LORD, beats Jeremiah and puts him in stocks. Jeremiah's complains to God. 20:1-18
• Zedekiah, Pashur, and Zephaniah ask Jeremiah if there is a positive message from the LORD. Jeremiah prophesies doom for them. He predicts the coming of the Branch. 21:1-23:40
• Jeremiah summarizes 23 years of prophetic ministry; lists the nations under judgment and predicts 70 years of captivity. 25:1-38
• Jeremiah prophesies against the temple and the city. He is accused of a capital crime. His life is spared after discussion of precedence. Thanks to Ahikam the son of Shaphan. 26:1-24
• Following the LORD's directive, Jeremiah puts himself in bonds and a yoke. He relates that the LORD has given Nebuchadnezzar the land until his time comes. Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke and prophesies the opposite message. 27:1-22
• The Exile
  Babylonian captivity
  The Babylonian captivity was the period in Jewish history during which the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon—conventionally 587–538 BCE....
  
  

Daniel

Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel is a book in the Hebrew Bible. The book tells of how Daniel, and his Judean companions, were inducted into Babylon during Jewish exile, and how their positions elevated in the court of Nebuchadnezzar. The court tales span events that occur during the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar,...

• Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
• Daniel in the lions' den
  Daniel in the lions' den
  The story of Daniel in the lions' den is found in the sixth chapter of the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. Daniel is an official in the Persian empire under King Darius, who had made a decree that no-one was to offer prayer to any god or man except him for a period of thirty days...
  
  
• The Fiery Furnace
  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
  Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are characters in the biblical Hebrew book of Daniel Chapters 1 – 3, known for their exclusive devotion to God. In particular, they are known for being saved by divine intervention from the Babylonian execution of being burned alive in a fiery furnace...
  
  
• The writing on the wall
  The writing on the wall
  "The writing on the wall" , an idiom, is a portent of doom or misfortune. It originates in the Biblical book of Daniel—where supernatural writing foretells the demise of the Babylonian Empire...
  
  

Ezra

Book of Ezra

The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Originally combined with the Book of Nehemiah in a single book of Ezra-Nehemiah, the two became separated in the early centuries of the Christian era...

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Book of Nehemiah

The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws...

• The Return to Jerusalem
  The Return to Zion
  The Return to Zion is a term that refers to the event written in the biblical books of Ezra-Nehemiah in which the Jews returned to the Land of Israel from the Babylonian exile following the decree by the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, the conqueror of the Babylonian empire in 538 BC, also known...
  
  
• The Building of the Second Temple

See also

• Hebrew Bible
  Hebrew Bible
  The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...
  
  
• List of New Testament stories