Hebrews Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This article is about the Hebrew people. For the book of the Bible, see Epistle to the Hebrews.

Hebrews (syns. Heberites, Eberites, Hebreians, descendants of biblical Patriarch Eber; עברים, Standard Hebrew ʿIvrim, Tiberian Hebrew ʿIḇrîm; also עבריים Standard Hebrew ʿIvriyyim, Tiberian Hebrew ʿIḇriyyîm) were who lived in Syria, Palestine, and Canaan and as far as present day Egypt and Kuwait in the 2nd millennium BCE. In the Levant, Hebrews spoke a Canaanite dialect (see Hebrew language). Interestingly some Habiru names listed on the Tikunani Prism are Hurrian, while other names associated with the Habiru have Hittite or Amorite onomastics. Most Hebrews were likely a branch of Canaanites that clung to the older religious preferences of El at the head of the pantheon, rather than his son, Adad.

From textual evidence largely from the Amarna letters and the Mari documents, academic scholars now believe the term we know as Hebrew originally meant a stateless individual or tribe, which didn't pay taxes or tribute to a ruler as such. Many Hebrews were originally Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Hurrians and Luwians who gradually distinguished themselves based upon a religious difference, most notably the religion started by Moses (see below), and later by adopting Mesopotamian themes through Amorite mythology like the specific biblical version of the story of Noah, derived originally from the Sumerian story of Ziusudra, the ark, and the deluge unleashed by the angry, jealous god Enlil (Babylonian Ellil), who was thwarted by the wise god Enki (Babylonian EA). El (Babylonian Ellil) and Elohim (Shining Ones), were both words the Hebrews inherited from West Semitic.

Hebrews lived in villages and raised livestock, seasonally grazing them in drier areas which didn't farm well, a form of subsistence known as transhumance. Principally goats, sheep and cattle. Their main beasts of burden were oxen, donkeys and around the time of the Iron-Bronze age transition, camels were introduced from central Asia.

The most influential group of Hebrews to emerge from the 12th century BCE Hebrew migrations were from a group which had long settled in Egypt and were known as Israel. Besides the Jews, other Hebrew peoples include the Edomites, Midianites, Arameans and Joktanites.

Certain Christian groups sometimes use the term Hebrews to distinguish the Jews in ancient times that lived before the birth of Jesus from Jews that lived afterward. Though important in some Christian theologies, the distinction is not recognized by the Jews themselves who still call themselves Hebrews in Hebraic.

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1 See also 2 References 3 External links

See also

• Abaris
• Afrasiab
• Avars
• Bnai israel
• Documentary hypothesis
• Huaguo
• Khwarezmia
• Lost Tribes of Israel
• Samuel

References

• Salvini, (Mirjo) 1996. The Habiru prism of King Tunip-Teßßup of Tikunani. Rome ISBN 8881470934

External links

• http://www.ancient-hebrew.org
• http://www.world-destiny.org/a35ibr.htm

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