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	Philip Manasseh may refer to: Manasseh Manasseh (tribal patriarch) Manasseh or Menashshe was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first son of Joseph and Asenath, and the founder of the Israelites of Tribe of Manasseh; however some Biblical criticism view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.... , a son of Joseph, according to the Torah Torah The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts.... the Tribe of Manasseh Tribe of Manasseh The Tribe of Menasheh was one of the Israelites. Together with the Tribe of Ephraim, Menasheh also formed the House of Joseph. At its height, the territory it occupied spanned the Jordan River, forming two "half-tribes", one on each side; the eastern half-tribe was almost entirely discontinuity with the western half-tribe, only slightly... , an Israelite Israelite According to the Tanakh, the Israelites were the descendants of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. They were divided into twelve tribes, each descended from one of twelve sons or grandsons of Jacob.... tribe Tribe A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups .... Manasseh of Judah Manasseh of Judah Manasseh of Judah was the king of Kingdom of Judah and only son and successor of Hezekiah. He was 12 years old when he began to reign. William F.... , a king of the kingdom of Judah Kingdom of Judah The Kingdom of Judah existed at two periods in Jewish history. According to the Hebrew Bible, a kingdom emerged in Judah after the death of Saul, when the tribe of Judah elevated David to rule over it.... . The ancestor of a priest named Jonathan Jonathan (Judges) Jonathan is a figure appearing in the account of Micah's Idol in the Book of Judges, in which he is appointed as the priest of a shrine; since the shrine contained an ephod and teraphim, Jonathan is referred to as an idolatry by traditional Judaism.... , mentioned in the Book of Judges Book of Judges The Book of Judges is a Books of the Bible originally written in Hebrew language. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges , who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites, and of their times.... as being the son of Gershom Gershom According to the Bible, Gershom was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. The name appears to mean a sojourner there , which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt; biblical criticism regard the name as being essentially the same as Gershon, and it is Gershom rather than Gershon who is sometimes li... , son of Manasseh; there is a scribal oddity in the text which means it may actually state Moses rather than Manasseh. The Bnei Menashe Bnei Menashe The Bnei Menashe are a group of more than 9,000 people from India's Seven Sister States of Manipur and Mizoram who claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes.... ("Children of Menasseh"), a group from northeast India who claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes Ten Lost Tribes The phrase Ten Lost Tribes of Israel refers to the ancient Tribes of Israel that disappeared from the Hebrew Bible account after the Kingdom of Israel was destroyed, enslaved and exiled by ancient Assyria.... of Israel Israel Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area.... . Manasseh A Jewish-born priest who married a Samaritan Samaritan The Samaritans , known in the Talmud as Cuthim , are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Ancestrally, they claim descent from a group of Israelite inhabitants who have connections to ancient Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of the Common Era.... and withdrew from Jerusalem to Mount Gerizim Mount Gerizim Mount Gerizim is one of the two mountains in the immediate vicinity of the West Bank city of Nablus , and forms the southern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the northern side being formed by Mount Ebal.... Hebrew Protestant leader Herbert W. Armstrong of the World Wide Church of God 1940s to 1980s in a book call “The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy” claimed the United States were ruminates of Tribe of Manasseh of Israel. His evidence was that of the blessings from Jacob to Ephraim and Manasseh and a Princess of the Northern kingdom of Israel, who fled to the Isles of the north with two tribesmen of Ephraim and Manasseh. Menasseh or Manasseh was the name of two Khazar rulers of the Bulanid dynasty: Menasseh I, mid to late 9th century CE or A.D. Menasseh II, late 9th century CE or A.D.