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Judaism -- What Is It and Where Did It Come From?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Origins of Israel in the Hebrew Bible

Israel is a word of uncertain derivation, but it is one of the main words that this collective of people in the region of canaan called themselves. We have this earliest reference to israel from the mnepta stella from 12 o, eight b c. And it locates this group called israel in a basically in the highlands in the sort of hilly central country of canaan. But the hebrew bible is all over the place about where this group came from, right? So there are different origin stories in different books of the bible. An in genesis, were told o kawil, there was this gy abraham. He came from mesopotamia

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