REL 1005 : Religion 1005 Test 1 Notes
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Hebrew, israelites, and israelis: who were the majority of people who wrote the books, israelites (jews, descendants of abraham, isaac, and jacob. All 3 were called hebrew: we get israelites from jacob. His name was israel: means struggles with god , after jacob his kids were called israel"s children. This is where the name israelites came from: currently they are called israelis. History of ruling kingdoms: 1st king was saul, david takes over in 1000 bce, for a great deal of time historical critics believed that. King david was a made up character to make a good story. But around the turn of the 20th century stones were found dating to his exact time etched with, house of david . When his father, solomon, was king he instituted a great deal of taxes and wasn"t very liked toward the end of his reign. Rehoboam that he should let up on the taxes.
