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| Page moved to [[heyeberi]] for transliteration standardization. | Page moved to [[heyeberi]] for transliteration standardization. |
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| 'Heyeberi' (also pronounced 'hebri' or 'habiru') refers to the main character group within the ancient [[Hebrew]] texts, "the Hebrews", also sometimes called Israelites, "children of [[Iseral]]", [[ihodim]], and a few other terms. A more modern term "Jew" is roughly approximate, having evolved from the ancient term [[yehudit]]. | |
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| For some strange reason, the academic and "mainstream" community tends to downplay the use of the word within the ancient Hebrew texts themselves, making statements such as "It does not appear very often in the Bible", or "to interpret the term as referring to the Hebrews ...[is] unlikely."((Jonathan Orr-Stav, author of "Aleph Through the Looking Glass")) Despite this popular academic view the term occurs around 70 times, certainly not a rare occurrence. | |
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| Other scholars are quick to point out the occurrence of the word in non-Hebraic ancient texts such as the ancient Egyptian "Amarna Letters" and many other text written in Akkadian or Ugaritic. These scholars generally interpret the term as a social slur roughly indicating "dirty bandits", based on some fairly weak etymology that might simply reveal the underlying longevity of antisemitism. | |
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| It is possible that the word is related to [[Eber]], a character from Genesis who was Abraham's (Eberim) great-great-great-great-grandfather, and who is implicated in Genesis 10:21 in a possible equating of Eber and [[Shem]]. Specifically, the verse seems to refer to Shem as "the father of all the children of Eber." | |
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