Lost Kingdoms of Israel and Judah

Israel did not begin as a kingdom. It first appears in the record as a name carved by Egypt, listed among defeated peoples in Canaan near the end of the thirteenth century before the common era. Behind that single line stood a harder world: hill villages, old Canaanite cities, Egyptian garrisons, broken trade routes, local shrines, rival rulers, drought, tribute, and families whose lives rarely re...