page_title: Judah (son of Jacob)
section_title: Dating the lifetime of Judah
hierarchical_section_title: Judah (son of Jacob) / Jewish tradition / Dating the lifetime of Judah
caption_attribution_description: English: tomb of yehuda, son of jacob, in yehud, israel עברית: קבר יהודה בן יעקב ביהוד, Original Image Name:קבר יהודה בן יעקב ביהוד, Location:יהוד
context_page_description: Judah was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah, the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Judah. By extension, he is indirectly eponymous of the Kingdom of Judah, the land of Judea and the word Jew.
  According to the narrative in Genesis, Judah with Tamar is the patrilinear ancestor of the Davidic line.
  The Tribe of Judah figures prominently in the Deuteronomistic history, which most scholars agree was reduced to written form, although subject to exilic and post-exilic alterations and emendations, during the reign of the Judahist reformer Josiah from 641 to 609 BC.
context_section_description: According to Classical rabbinical literature, Judah was born on 15 Sivan (early June); classical sources differ on the date of death, with the Book of Jubilees advocating a death at age 119, 18 years before Levi, but the midrashic Book of Jasher advocating a death at the age of 129. The marriage of Judah and births of his children are described in a passage widely regarded as an abrupt change to the surrounding narrative. The passage is often regarded as presenting a significant chronological issue, as the surrounding context appears to constrain the events of the passage to happening within 22 years, and the context together with the passage itself requires the birth of the grandson of Judah and of his son's wife, and the birth of that son, to have happened within this time (to be consistent, this requires an average of less than 8 years gap per generation).
  According to textual scholars, the reason for the abrupt interruption this passage causes to the surrounding narrative, and the chronological anomaly it seems to present, is that it derives from the Jahwist source, while the immediately surrounding narrative is from the Elohist.
caption: Tomb attributed to Judah in Yehud, Israel
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