Jan Rap, die vroeë Israeliete/Jode/Hebreërs

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Ek het maar net my Encarta Ensiklopedie om in na te slaan en daar sê hulle op een plek die volgende: "Historians know little about the early history of the Israelites."

Ons het eintlik maar net die Bybel, wat dalk vir geskiedkundige redes nie ver genoeg teruggaan nie. Selfs al glo mens die storie van Adam en Eva en die Paradys, is daar geen geografiese verwysing in die betrokke stuk nie. Tydens 'n argument het een ou vir my gesê hulle was 'n nomadiese volk, maar ek het hom onderstebo geklap voor hy kon verder gaan, omdat hy my as onnosel beskryf het. So is daardie inligting dalk vir altyd verlore, want hy is intussen oorlede. My innige apologie.

Ek vind die volgende in die Encarta Reference Library en mens sal seker nie beter kry as dit nie:

"Hebrews (people)
Hebrews (people), group of tribes of Semitic stock that, according to tradition, migrated from Mesopotamia to Palestine during the 2nd millennium BC. Some scholars, however, trace their origin to the Wilderness (that is, the Sinai) rather than to Mesopotamia. The Hebrews moved to Egypt, where they were enslaved. When released from bondage in Egypt under the lawgiver Moses, they journeyed through the Wilderness and thereafter, under Joshua, conquered and settled Palestine. The term Hebrew is applied in the Bible to Abraham (see Genesis 14:13). Etymologically, the name Hebrews seems to mean “those who pass from place to place” or “nomads,” a designation applied to them by the Amorites. It is generally assumed, although denied by some scholars, that the Hebrews are the people called Habiru or Habiri in the tablets found at Tall al ‘Am?rinah, Egypt; written about 1400 BC, these were found in 1887. This assumption coincides with biblical tradition; the Amarna correspondence, however, makes no reference to the origin or ethnic character of the Habiru. In Genesis 40:15, Joseph explains to the Egyptians that he had been kidnapped from “the land of the Hebrews”; in Exodus 2:6, the daughter of Pharaoh recognizes Moses as “one of the Hebrews' children.” The implication of these sources is that in early times the Israelites were known to foreigners as Hebrews. In later times the Israelites applied the name to themselves, as in Jonah 1:9.

Contributed By:
Samuel Sandmel
Microsoft ® Encarta ® Reference Library 2002. © 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Groete,

Varkspek

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