hebrews

But I see no reason to believe that when the ancient Hebrews wrote about creation taking seven days, that they didn't mean seven actual days.

As well as the idea that some ancient Hebrews miraculously survived in a cave.

The Old Testament says that Hebrews could take slaves from their neighboring nations.

Well OK, a couple of things, one it's kind of a modern less complex flavor of Judaism, no offense meant to any Hebrews reading this.

The ancient Hebrews did some serious moralizing over food as well.

Also John Rhys-Davies reads Hebrews so well with his classical training and Welsh accent that it's hard not to memorize large parts of it verbatim.

Why do Hebrews or Arabs also play the same piano?

Take everything I said about the Hebrews and apply it to the Muslim pirates.

The Phoenicians were a semitic people like the Jews, and they gave the world its first alphabet which was adopted by both the Hebrews and the Greeks.

I read it over and over and thanks to that, when I later came to stories like the Hebrews wandering the desert in Exodus, it was hard to put the von Däniken nonsense out of my mind.

An example of people closely related and who spoke a very similar language, but who were divided based on political allegiance is that the Phoenicians were counted as descendants of Ham, because they belonged to Egypt, while Hebrews were counted as descendants of Shem, because they belonged to Assyro-Babylonia.

Second, if you don't want to offend Jews, don't call them "Hebrews".

"Hebrews" is not really used in modern Hebrew unless making some sort of biblical reference.

It is interesting that the ancient Hebrews believed that certain animal species possessed "soulish" qualities or qualities that expressed emotion, will, mind, and the ability to form relationships with each other.

Certainly a document that says polytheists should be murdered (Quran 9:5) or one that says Hebrews should "completely consume" all the people that they get control of "with no pity" (Deuteronomy 7:16) could be considered not only insulting and abusive, but outright threatening.

Hebrews 11, however, is remembered for being a chapter that many of the margin references are made from.

Hebrews & Israelites, People of Israel, are as far a I know, used interchangeably in the old testament.

This makes the case for science, not the theistic God of the Hebrews.