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Good article.
I remember being at the British Museum a number of years ago and coming across tablets that represented the correspondence between the Pharaoh and his ambassador to what was later to become Israel. The ambassador wrote, (and here I'm paraphrasing a little, of course) "The Habiru hate the Arabs and the Arabs hate the Habiru, they're always fighting and I can't get them to stop. This is hopeless. I'm giving up and coming home." Some things never change.
Interesting. I enjoy reading articles like this one.
In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit.
For now, I think their Caesar figurehead is a mad leprechaun on Fox News. ...or Buchanan, or Novak. Alright, their are too many to count. Maybe they're working from cells (groups with no obvious heirarchy) for now.
Named for a local Bedouin tribe, the Tel El-Amarna tablets (which can now be found mostly in the Berlin and British Museums) were mostly the official correspondence between Pharaoh Amenhotep IV - Akhenaten - and his governors and vassals from places such as Canaan, Syria, Babylonia, etc. They date mostly from around 1380 BCE and were written in Akkadian, the language of diplomacy of the era... Now, guess what repeatedly comes out in this official correspondence between Pharaoh and his vassals in Canaan and the surrounding areas? Complaints about invasions of the Habiru, the Hebrews. While some scholars debate the details, most agree that the time - with even newer confirmations by excavations in Jericho - fits into the period of Joshua's conquests of Canaan. Like many other accounts in the Hebrew Bible, we indeed have good supporting evidence from elsewhere to support the Jews' own version of these events. And what makes it even better is that this often comes from those viewing the events from the "other side" of the picture. This is no small point. Corroboration is very important to any serious scholar. Not many religious texts can match the corroboration found for those of the Jews.This topic, for obvious reasons.
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Scientists are still baffled about how all those Akkadians ended up here in Louisiana, and why they first began to eat crawfish....