Andrew Tobolowsky, author of the new book 'The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel,' discusses how the concept has been used for centuries to construct and reinvent identity.

A new book, Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel: New Identities across Time and Space, by Dr. Andrew Tobolowsky, who teaches at William & Mary, looks set to revolutionize how we think about the ...

Jacob’s sons are the ancestors of Israel’s tribes and his blessing of them must therefore relate in some way to Israel’s future history.

It begins with the Spanish baroque master Francisco de Zurbarán, who in the 1640s made thirteen paintings of Jacob, the Old Testament patriarch, and his sons, who founded the twelve tribes of Israel.

The Jamaican Rastafari subdivision known as The Twelve Tribes of Israel, founded by Vernon Carrington.

Twelve Tribes is not a substitute for the important books that directly address today’s political issues, but it is a valuable complement to those books, and it adds another layer of complexity ...

The tribes include those from Northern Israel that were captured by the King of Assyria in 722 BC and the dispersal tribes of Southern Kingdom after the invasion and conquest by the Roman soldiers ...

12 tribal paintings link land, history and hopeful future For her solo exhibit in Rome, Beverly Barkat renders the priestly gemstone-studded breastplate in paintings made from Israeli shells, stones ...