Short History of the Jews..pt1

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


The Myth of the Jewish ?Race?


"Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite." ? Ezekiel, 16.17.


Race is a sensitive subject. To use the word almost invites the charge of racism. Yet to understand the rise of Christianity one must come to terms the people who were its original authors ? the Jews.

The Jews claim themselves to be a race ? but are they?
The earliest reference yet found to this singular people is on a statue from the Syrian city of Alalakh, dated to about 1550 BC. The inscription refers to hapiru warriors in the land of Kin?anu ? a presence confirmed by clay tablets from Akhenaten?s capital of Amarna, referring to marauders in the hill country of Palestine. The famous stele of Pharaoh Merneptah dated to 1207 BC records 'Israel is laid waste, his seed is not?. 'Israel' here is a reference to a people, not a territory.

The weight of evidence suggests these original ?Hebrews? coalesced during the bronze age from successive migrations, some from the periphery of the Nile delta (in Egyptian, ?Peru or apiru meant a labourer) but most from across the Jordan and Euphrates rivers. In their own semitic tongue, habiru meant ?beyond?, suggesting an origin elsewhere. In Babylonian script khabiru referred to a class of slaves. As a people, therefore, the Hebrews combined Mesopotamian and Egyptian stock, almost certainly drawn from the lowest social order, conceivably including runaway slaves. One migration, at least, brought with it a mountain/sky god ? Yahweh ? destined for higher things.