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Judah

Old Testament
1. the fourth son of Jacob, one of whose descendants was to be the Messiah (Genesis 29:35; 49:8--12)
2. the tribe descended from him
3. the tribal territory of his descendants which became the nucleus of David's kingdom and, after the kingdom had been divided into Israel and Judah, the southern kingdom of Judah, with Jerusalem as its centre
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Judah

unknowingly has relations with daughter-in-law. [O.T.: Genesis 38:15–18]
See: Incest
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Koffsky, the author of many Jewish children's books including Kayla and Kugel's Almost Perfect Passover and Shabbat Shalom, Hey, tells the story of Judah, who tries to be a good big brother despite his baby sister Hannah being deeply annoying.
A very small group of people have tried to misuse, for their ulterior motives, his reference to the historical background of betrayal of Judah, he said in a statement issued here.
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Black Square has been classified by its publisher as "Travel." Tim Judah's In Wartime is more of a primer--an explanation, if there can be such a thing, of the country's historical and political forces and how they have come to bear crushingly on the present.
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