Short History of the Jews..pt2

Just Who Were the Jews?? First invent your Jew, then invent your Christ?

Settlement in Canaan

As barbarous newcomers to what was the land of Canaan, these semites (speakers of a tongue common to Syrians, Arabs and Mesopotamians) took up migratory occupation of the less fertile hill-country of the interior. Neither their limited sub-culture ? an illiterate donkey nomadism; nor their social organisation ? patriarchal and authoritarian ? distinguished them from other tent-dwelling pastoralists. These early, polytheistic, Hebrews scratched an existence in an unpromising land on the fringes of the major civilisations, occasionally moving with their animals into the Nile delta in times of draught.

It seems as if they were joined, over time,by outcasts or refugees from the more sophisticated Canaanite (Phoenician) coastal cities. ?Israel emerged peacefully and gradually from within Canaanite society ? concluded Karen Armstrong, the noted religious scholar. (A History of Jerusalem, p23]

The Canaanite migrants brought with them cultic practices and images of their traditional gods. A major Canaanite god was El, and the phrase ?El has conquered? gives us the word Isra?el. The Canaanite god El had a ghostly presence in a host of Jewish heroes: Dan-i-El; Ezek-i-El; Sam-u-El, Ish-ma-El, El-i-jah, El-o-him, etc.

God-inspired names were common throughout the west-Semitic language region. Other Canaanite gods included Baal (a storm god) ? also honoured in a host of Hebrew names, Asherah (a fertility goddess, consort of El), Shalem (a Syrian sun god ? later to be honoured in the name Jeru?salem ), Milcom, Chemosh, etc. Ru?shalimum is mentioned in records of the Pharaoh Sesostris III (1872 - 1847 BC) ? the settlement actually pre-existent long before the tribe of Hebrews made it their own. The site then appears to have been unoccupied for three hundred years until the Jebusites (otherwise known as Kereti or Peleti ? Cretans or Philistines) arrived.

I thought you said the Jews were invented? :eek: So if you claim that Jews are invented, then none of your posts are worth reading because they're based on nothing but contradictions. :rolleyes: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

HAHAH.. JEWS BEING SOME GREAT GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.. HAHAHA.. IF I WERE TO INVENT A RELIGION.. UR DAMN RIGHT I'D MAKE MYSELF THE CHOSEN!!!..

READ THE POST BEFORE YOU REPLY.. REFLECT BEFORE YOU DENY.. YOU ARE SO CAUGHT UP IN THE DELUSIONS OF YOUR YOUTH.. I PITY YOU CARICO.. YOU ARE NOT DOING "JUSTICE" TO YOUR "RELIGION"... VERY SAD INDEED

Sounds like jealousy to me.

Actually, God said he would scatter the Jews all over the earth (which he did) and make the nations abhor the Jews as punishment for their adultery against Him (which they do). And since the Jews are no different than anyone else (unless you rreally do think they're different since they're God's chosen people), there's no reason to hate the Jews except that God is making it happen. So all you do is prove the bible true & God's existence even more. So thank you.