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Does the Talmud or any other Jewish sources for that matter discuss and/or describe any flags that were associated with ancient Israelite/Jewish kingdoms?

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    https://boulderjewishnews.org/2017/flags-of-love-and-war-parashat-bamidbar/ – rosends Feb 01 '22 at 16:19
  • Did flags (as we know them) exist back then? – Double AA Feb 01 '22 at 17:02
  • related: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/a/89499 – msh210 Feb 01 '22 at 19:48
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    related: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/a/23510/7539 – Rish Feb 01 '22 at 20:35
  • @DoubleAA There were flags in the midbar. It's not a stretch to suggest that other - ahem - autonomous collectives would have their own banners as well. – Yehuda Feb 02 '22 at 04:28
  • @Yehuda were there flags (as we know them) back then? – Double AA Feb 02 '22 at 12:24
  • @DoubleAA Based on Rashi to Bamidbar 2:2, it certainly sounds like it. – Yehuda Feb 02 '22 at 17:26
  • @Yehuda flags weren't invented yet... – Double AA Feb 02 '22 at 17:41
  • @DoubleAA Rashi describes it as a colored piece of cloth with a picture on it. If that's not at least a loose definition of a flag, I don't know what is. – Yehuda Feb 02 '22 at 18:35
  • @Yehuda Rashi lived in the 11th century – Double AA Feb 02 '22 at 18:54
  • @DoubleAA Rashi was describing what the pasuk itself says happened in the midbar. I don't think the standard for this site is to assume that Rashi invents things out of whole cloth (pun intended). – Yehuda Feb 02 '22 at 19:01
  • @Yehuda of course it isn't, Rashi is just quoting a midrash – Double AA Feb 02 '22 at 19:04
  • @DoubleAA So if Rashi is quoting a Talmud-era source in the midrash that there were flags (as we know them) in the midbar, then is stands to reason that - at least according to the Talmudic sources OP is asking for - it is not anachronistic to assume that there were flags in the time of the ancient Israelite/Jewish kingdoms. – Yehuda Feb 02 '22 at 23:17
  • @Yehuda Well, it's anachronistic to assume there were flags then, but I guess it's not anachronistic to ask what the Talmud anachronistically thought of those 'flags'. – Double AA Feb 03 '22 at 01:13

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