HIST 1851 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kohen, Yodh, Ten Commandments
4 Oct 2020
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2000 - 1900 bce abraham founds the religion. Only evidence of his existence is found in the hebrew bible: next major chapter : flight to egypt to escape famine in canaan. Israel fall into servitude to the egyptian pharaohs. Israel = ethnic group, network of nomadic tribes possibly divided amongst the sons of jacob. Joseph is the first to call himself a hebrew meaning outsider, slave: between the 13th. Ii th centuries bce there arose a group in canaan who shared key characteristics with modern day jews : family the family unit was the most basic unit of organization. Genealogy tracing a family "s history back to the children of israel. Language the tribes of canaan spoke an indigenous semitic language known today as hebrew: ark of the covenant containing the ten commandments carried from mt. It remains an open question when exactly the faith in a single god was accepted: end of 4th century development of kingship by saul.
