HIST 1024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Stratification, Ten Lost Tribes, Tiglath-Pileser Iii
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Hebrews: language and people while nomadic, before they enter canaan and palestine, before they accept yahweh. Israelites: describes the hebrew people after settlement in palestine, after acceptance of yahweh. Jews: specifically refers to the people of judah, especially after the return from babylonian captivity in 538 b. c. Where: crossroads of the ancient world, called palestine from the philistines, a people who had earlier settled there. Time line: third millennium and earlier, second millennium settlement in palestine, absorption of canaanites; flight from egypt, first millennium- hebrew kingdom under saul. Hebrew bible: consists of three parts a. i. Second millennium: later migrations telescoped into 3 generations: abraham, isaac, jacob, actually lasted for centuries, by 1750ish b. c. , abraham migrates into land of canaan. Settlement in canaan: covenant with god yahweh, stories of abraham and his family written down finally in 10th century b. c. f, no military conquest of canaan, subjugated by egypt during new kingdom.
