This is Proof the Jewish Lie Evolves
Reported by: Rev. Paul bka Jesus Christ
Ancient
Jewish History:
The Land of the Hebrews
The Land of the Hebrews
Ancient Jewish History: Table
of Contents | The
Temples | The
Twelve Tribes
The stage on which Hebrew history
takes place is a varied and a troubled place. Hebrew history, as told by the
Hebrews, begins in Mesopotamia, in the cities of Ur
in the south and Haran
in the north. Mesopotamia was a rich agricultural area, fed by irrigation from
the two rivers which give it its name: the Tigris and the Euphrates .
Powerful city-states, such as Ur ,
rose up in this fertile area, and these city-states would eventually become the
foundation of mighty empires, such as the Akkadian and Amorite empires.
The Hebrews become a nation in
another foreign land, Egypt .
Rich with the water and soil carried by the Nile river, Egypt grew quickly into a great commercial and
military power; the Egyptians created the longest continual culture
outside of Asia . Punctuated by periods of
decline and even foreign rule, the Egyptians had learned by the New Kingdom to ruthlessly control and subdue the foreign
peoples surrounding their country. The Hebrews come into existence during this
last powerful burst of power and creativity in Egypt .
Between this period, that
is, the origins in Mesopotamia and the creation of the new nation in Egypt , Hebrew history centered around Palestine . This area was
the special area of Hebrew history, for it was this area that the Hebrew god
promised to his chosen people. In the Hebrew world view, this was their land
given to them by the one and only one god, and it was to this land that the
Hebrews would migrate to out of Egypt .
On this land the various tribes would fight difficult and often losing battles
of occupation, set up a kingdom, and then the briefest of empires.
What was this land? Its most
salient geographical fact was that it lay between Mesopotamia and Egypt . It was
the land bridge that carried all the commercial goods between these two wealthy
and powerful areas; it was also the highway on which armies would travel,
whether Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, or Roman. More than anything else, this
fact of geography determined the course of Hebrew history. Like a moon caught
between the massive gravitational forces of two large planets, Palestine was in constant turmoil and under
constant threat.
Although the Hebrews called it the
"land of milk and honey," Palestine
(named after the group that dominated it for much of its early history, the
Philistines) was in fact a harsh environment. It appeared to be the land of
milk and honey only to a group of people that had been, after all, living in
the desert for several generations. The land itself is composed of four
geographically self-contained longitudinal strips; the self-containment of
these areas always made it difficult throughout history to create a unified state
out of the entire area. The richest agricultural areas are along the
Mediterranean coast, but this area was dominated fist by Canaanites and then
Philistines for a large part of Hebrew history.
The Hebrews controlled this area
for only a very brief time during the monarchy. Because they could not dislodge
these people, the Hebrews settled in the second area, the central hill
country, a backbone of mountains running from north to south between the
coastal areas and the Jordan River valley. Dry
and rocky, the central hills are a very difficult place to live, but the
spectacle of Hebrew history mainly takes place in this hill country: Galilee, Samaria , Megiddo , Shechem , Judah ,
Jerusalem,
Hebron,
Beer-sheba. To the west of the hills is the Jordan River
valley. In Hebrew, the word Jordan means "the descender," for it
begins at Mount Hermon in the north at about 200 feet above sea level, and
literally plummets to the Sea (actually a lake) of Galilee ten miles south at
700 feet below sea level, and from there another two hundred miles to
the Dead or Salt Sea at 1300 feet below sea level (the lowest piece of land on
earth and a mightily inhospitable place to live). Along this valley and around
the Sea of Galilee are rich farmlands yielding grains and fruit as well as
wealthy fishing in the river and the Sea of Galilee .
To the west of the Jordan River valley are the
Transjordan Highlands (about 1500 feet above sea level). The climate can be
harsh, but several rivers allow for rich agriculture. This area was largely
occupied by non-Hebrews; in the Transjordan Highlands were the kingdoms of Edom (south), Moab (center), and Ammon (center).
For most of its history, these lands were out of Hebrew control.
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