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Boney M's Rivers of Babylon 1978 Had the Hebrews at their Edge of Becoming Jews
Boney M's Rivers of Babylon 1978 Had the Hebrews at their Edge of Becoming Jews


The Hebrews

The Hebrews were ancient Israelites, or Jews.

Hebrew is also their language, which is written right to left, and originally didn't mark vowels.

Here are the Hebrew Numbers

 

The English word Hebrew has its roots in the Aramaic word ebrai or ebhrai, which might mean from the other side of the river, indicative of an immigrant. What river? The Euphrates comes to mind.

 

If we would want to nitpick, we would call the Jewish people Hebrews from ancient times until their release from the Babylonian Exile in 538 BC.

And then?

After the Babylonian Exile (586-538 BC) we would refer to them as Jewish people, because it was the descendents of the Kingdom of Judah that survived the exile.

How so?

 


 

Ancient Israel had 12 tribes. The ten northern tribes, aka the Kingdom of Israel, checked out after having been conquered by the Assyrians in 721 BC. They assimilated and gave up their heritage.

The other two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, aka the Kingdom of Judah, hung in there, and then the Babylonians came in 586 BC and later Boney M.

Hence the term Jew, from Judah, who was the fourth son of Jacob with Leah.

Map of the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah
Map of the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah

 

 

Why did the Babylonians release the Jews?

Because the Persians, led by Cyrus the Great, conquered Babylon and let the Hebrews go.

Therefore:

Up to 538 BC - It's the Hebrews

From 538 BC - It's the Jewish People

 

The Hebrews are a Semitic tribe, as the Hebrew language is a Semitic language, which indicates the descendance of Sem or Shem, a son of Noah (see Bible.)

 

Who Was Sem?

Noah, his wife, and his three sons and their wives, survived a divine and global Etch A Sketch shaking, aka the Flood.

Thus, mankind traces its roots back to either one of these three sons, Sem, Ham, and Japhet:

The Semites procreated and became the Hebrews, the Arabs, the Assyrians, and the Armaeans.

The Hamites became the Egyptians and generally all Africans.

The Japhetites became the Indo-Europeans.

 

 

What is Anti-Semitism?

If you are anti-Semitic, you don't like Jews, either as a religious group or as a race. See Hitler.

And yes, the term is inaccurate (see above: the Semites officially include Arabs etc.) but German racists made the word match its current meaning.


See also
Holocaust, Shoah in Hebrew, aka the Catastrophe, in which 6 million Jews were killed.

 

The Jewish Family Tree In a Nutshell

According to Bible, Adam's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson was Noah, the one with the zoo on a boat.

Noah's son Sem had himself an eighth great-grandson, Abraham, who by the way is revered in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, so bravo.

A quick recap on Abraham's origins. Where exactly did he come from?

Map of Abraham's Migration Route
Map of Abraham's Migration Route
Copyright Carta, The Israel Map and Publishing Company, Ltd.

 

So then, Abraham and Sarah had a son, Isaac.

Isaac and Rebecca had a son, Jacob.

Now Jacob, blessed with the questionable fortune of having two wives, happened to be wrestling with a man an entire night, and he was winning. Turned out his sparring partner was an angel, but a weak one, whose only way out of the fight was by way of cheating. He dislocated Jacob's thigh.

When Jacob still didn't let go (points for tenacity,) the angel "blessed" him and renamed him Israel, and the two split.

Which proves the point that if you can't convince with pain, you can probably still bribe with money or, as in this case, promising fame.

Future mobsters learned from this episode and handled it more smartly by starting with offering money and fame first before crushing bones.


Now then, Jacob became Israel and the father of the 12 tribes of Israel:

See Genesis chapter 32 for all of this.

The 12 tribes of Israel were descendents of Jacob's 12 sons:

Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher
Issachar
Zebulon
Joseph
Benjamin

 

By the way, what language did Jesus speak?

 

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