Ontstellend ongesteld & cliterodectomidaal re:17-3
*
Tussen
Geslachtsgemeenschappen
& Slachtvelden:
the early history
of the
Jews.
SO
'finally'
I'm getting to
one of my favourite subjects again:
the Hebrews,
also a 'Semitic' people,
maybe not so important in their own time
as well as in their influence
upon the later history
of 'our' world!
*
THEY
were settled in Judea
long before 1000 B.C.,
and their capital city after that time
was Jerusalem.
*
THEIR
Story is interwoven
with that of the great empires on either side of them,
Egypt to the south
and the changing empires of Syria, Assyria, Babylon and Persia
to the north
.............
*
THEIR
Country was an inevitable high road
between these latter powers
and Egypt
...
*
Their
IMPORTANCE
in 'our' world
is due to the fact that they produced a written literature,
a world history,
a collection of laws, chronicles, psalm, books of wisdom, poetry and fiction
and political utterances
which became at last what Christians know as the Old Testament,
the Hebrew Bible
.............
*
THIS
'myDi'-LITERATURE
appears in history in the fourth
or fifth century B.C.
*
PROBABLY
this literature was
first put together
in Babylon!?!
*
In
previous myDi-stories
since the beginning of this year
we have already told how the Pharaoh, Necho II,
invaded the Assyrian Empire while Assyria
was fighting for life against Medes,
Persians, and
Chaldeans?
*
Josiah,
King of Judah, opposed him,
and was defeated and slain at Megiddo {Har Megiddo - "ARMAGEDDON"}
in 608 B.C.
*
Judah became
a tributary to Egypt,
and when Nebuchadnezzar the Great,
the new Chaldean king in Babylon,
rolled back Necho into Egypt,
he attempted to manage Judah by setting up puppet kings
in Jerusalem
.............
*
THAT
experiment failed,
the people massacred his Babylonian officials,
and he then determined to break up this little state altogether,
which had long been playing off Egypt
against the northern empire!
Jerusalem was sacked and burned,
and the remnant of the people was carried off
captive to Babylon
........
*
THERE
they remained
until Cyrus took Babylon in 538 B.C.
He then collected them together and sent them back
to resettle their country and rebuild the walls
and temple of
Jerusalem.
*
BEFORE
that time
the Jews do not seem to have been
a very civilised or united people?
Probably only a very few of them could read
or write?
In their own history
one never hears of the early books of the Bible being read;
the first mention of a book
is in the time of
Josiah
...
*
The Babylonian captivity
civilised them and consolidated them!
They returned aware of their own literature,
an acutely selfconscious and political
people
........
*
Their Bible
at that time
seems to have consisted only of the Pentateuch,
that is to say the first five books of the "Old" Testament
as we know it
.............
*
IN ADDITION,
as separate books
they already had many of the other books
that have since been incorporated with the Pentateuch
into the present Hebrew Bible;
Chronicles, the Psalms and Proverbs,
for example
........
*
The accounts of
the Creation of the World,
of Adam and Eve and of The Flood,
with which the Bible begins,
run closely parallel with similar Babylonian legends;
they seem to have been part of the common beliefs
of all the Semitic
peoples
........?
*
SO TOO
the stories of Moshe and of Samson
have Sumerian and Babylonian
parallels!
*
BUT
WITH THE STORY OF AVRAHAM AND ONWARD
begins something more special to
the Jewish
'race'
...
*
Avram/
Avraham/Abraham/Ibrahim
may have lived
as early as the days of Hammurabi in Babylon.
HE was a patriarchal Semitic nomad.
To the Book of Genesis the myDi-reader and -writer must go for the stories
of his wanderings and for the stories of his sons and grandchildren
and how they became captive in
the Land of Egypt
...
*
HE
travelled thru Canaan,
and the G*D of Avraham {or Ibrahim to Moslims!},
says the Bible Story,
promised this smiling land of prosperous cities to him
and to his children
..............
*
AND AFTER
a long sojourn in Egypt
and after forty years of wandering in the wilderness under the leadership of MOSHE,
the children of Avraham,
grown now to a host of twelve tribes,
invaded the land of Canaan
from the Arabian deserts
to the East
...
*
THEY
MAY have done this
somewhen between 1600 and 1300 B.C.;
there are no Egyptian records of Moshe nor of Canaan at this time
to help out the story
.............
*
BUT
AT ANY RATE
they did not succeed in conquering any more than the hilly backgrounds
of 'the promised land{s}'
............
*
THE COAST
was now in the hands,
not of the Canaanites,
but of other 'newcomers' {before/during & after the Explosian at Thera?},
those Aegean peoples, the Philistines;
and their cities,
Gaza, Gath, Ashdod, Ashcalon and Joppa,
at that time successsfully withstood
the Hebrew
attack?!
*
THUS
for many generations
the children of Avraham remained an obscure people of the hilly back-
country engaged in incessant bickerings with the Philistines
and with the kindred tribes about them,
Moabites, Midianites,
and so forth
...
*
The interested myDi-reader
will find in the Book of Judges
a record of their struggles and disasters
during this period!?!
*
FOR
frankly told
very largely it is a record of disasters
and failures
........
*
FOR MOST
OF THIS PERIOD
the Hebrews were ruled,
so far as there was any rule among them,
by priestly judges
selected by the elders of the people,
but at last,
somewhen towards 1000 B.C.,
they chose themselves a king, Sha'ul, to lead them in battle ...
BUT Sha'ul's leading was no great improvement upon the leading of
the Judges;
he perished with his son Jonathan
under the hail of Philistine arrows {iron!} at the battle of Mount Gilboa
{I visited that area before the Six Day War in the springtime of 1967 for the first time}, his armour went into the temple of the Philistine Venus,
and their bodies were nailed to the walls
of Beth-She'an
....
*
HIS
SUCCESSOR DAVID
was more successful and more politic:
with King David dawned the only period of real prosperity the Hebrew peoples were ever to know until recently
{before and after 1948?}
...
IT
{David's rule and that of his son Salomon!}
was based on a close alliance with the Phoenician city of Tyre,
whose King Hiram seems to have been a man of great intelligence and enterprise!
*
HE
wished to secure a trade route to the Red Sea thru the Hebrew hill country:
NORMALLY Phoenician trade went to the Red Sea by Egypt,
but Egypt was in a state of profound disorder at that time;
there may have been other obstructions to Phoenician trade along this line,
and at any rate Hiram established the very closest relations both with David and with his son and
successor, Sjlomo
{Salman}
...
*
UNDER
HIRAM's auspices the walls,
palace and temple of Jerusalem arose,
and in return Hiram built and launched his ships {from Elat/Aqaba} on the
Red Sea
..............
AND A VERY
CONSIDERABLE TRADE
passed northward and southward thru Jerusalem.
And Solomon achieved a prosperity and magnificence unprecedented
in the experience of his people
..............
He was even given a daughter of Pharaoh
in marriage
........
*
BUT
it is well to keep the proportion of things in mind!?!
AT THE CLIMAX of his glories
Solomon was only a little subordinate king in a little city?
HIS POWER
was so transitory
that within a few years of his death
SHISHAK, the first Pharaoh of the twenty-second dynasty,
had taken Jerusalem and looted most of its
splendours
.............
*
To me it seems
myDi-'history' is repeating the same mistakes over and over again all over the world: the names of king and countries might differ, but
their actions and motives betray
their lack of knowledge?
*
History
is filled with Saddamns,
Bushes, Blairs &
Balkenendes
...
@
And whether we like it or not:
we as myDi-buccaneers are also
part of it
one way or
another
.............
Tussen
Geslachtsgemeenschappen
& Slachtvelden:
the early history
of the
Jews.
SO
'finally'
I'm getting to
one of my favourite subjects again:
the Hebrews,
also a 'Semitic' people,
maybe not so important in their own time
as well as in their influence
upon the later history
of 'our' world!
*
THEY
were settled in Judea
long before 1000 B.C.,
and their capital city after that time
was Jerusalem.
*
THEIR
Story is interwoven
with that of the great empires on either side of them,
Egypt to the south
and the changing empires of Syria, Assyria, Babylon and Persia
to the north
.............
*
THEIR
Country was an inevitable high road
between these latter powers
and Egypt
...
*
Their
IMPORTANCE
in 'our' world
is due to the fact that they produced a written literature,
a world history,
a collection of laws, chronicles, psalm, books of wisdom, poetry and fiction
and political utterances
which became at last what Christians know as the Old Testament,
the Hebrew Bible
.............
*
THIS
'myDi'-LITERATURE
appears in history in the fourth
or fifth century B.C.
*
PROBABLY
this literature was
first put together
in Babylon!?!
*
In
previous myDi-stories
since the beginning of this year
we have already told how the Pharaoh, Necho II,
invaded the Assyrian Empire while Assyria
was fighting for life against Medes,
Persians, and
Chaldeans?
*
Josiah,
King of Judah, opposed him,
and was defeated and slain at Megiddo {Har Megiddo - "ARMAGEDDON"}
in 608 B.C.
*
Judah became
a tributary to Egypt,
and when Nebuchadnezzar the Great,
the new Chaldean king in Babylon,
rolled back Necho into Egypt,
he attempted to manage Judah by setting up puppet kings
in Jerusalem
.............
*
THAT
experiment failed,
the people massacred his Babylonian officials,
and he then determined to break up this little state altogether,
which had long been playing off Egypt
against the northern empire!
Jerusalem was sacked and burned,
and the remnant of the people was carried off
captive to Babylon
........
*
THERE
they remained
until Cyrus took Babylon in 538 B.C.
He then collected them together and sent them back
to resettle their country and rebuild the walls
and temple of
Jerusalem.
*
BEFORE
that time
the Jews do not seem to have been
a very civilised or united people?
Probably only a very few of them could read
or write?
In their own history
one never hears of the early books of the Bible being read;
the first mention of a book
is in the time of
Josiah
...
*
The Babylonian captivity
civilised them and consolidated them!
They returned aware of their own literature,
an acutely selfconscious and political
people
........
*
Their Bible
at that time
seems to have consisted only of the Pentateuch,
that is to say the first five books of the "Old" Testament
as we know it
.............
*
IN ADDITION,
as separate books
they already had many of the other books
that have since been incorporated with the Pentateuch
into the present Hebrew Bible;
Chronicles, the Psalms and Proverbs,
for example
........
*
The accounts of
the Creation of the World,
of Adam and Eve and of The Flood,
with which the Bible begins,
run closely parallel with similar Babylonian legends;
they seem to have been part of the common beliefs
of all the Semitic
peoples
........?
*
SO TOO
the stories of Moshe and of Samson
have Sumerian and Babylonian
parallels!
*
BUT
WITH THE STORY OF AVRAHAM AND ONWARD
begins something more special to
the Jewish
'race'
...
*
Avram/
Avraham/Abraham/Ibrahim
may have lived
as early as the days of Hammurabi in Babylon.
HE was a patriarchal Semitic nomad.
To the Book of Genesis the myDi-reader and -writer must go for the stories
of his wanderings and for the stories of his sons and grandchildren
and how they became captive in
the Land of Egypt
...
*
HE
travelled thru Canaan,
and the G*D of Avraham {or Ibrahim to Moslims!},
says the Bible Story,
promised this smiling land of prosperous cities to him
and to his children
..............
*
AND AFTER
a long sojourn in Egypt
and after forty years of wandering in the wilderness under the leadership of MOSHE,
the children of Avraham,
grown now to a host of twelve tribes,
invaded the land of Canaan
from the Arabian deserts
to the East
...
*
THEY
MAY have done this
somewhen between 1600 and 1300 B.C.;
there are no Egyptian records of Moshe nor of Canaan at this time
to help out the story
.............
*
BUT
AT ANY RATE
they did not succeed in conquering any more than the hilly backgrounds
of 'the promised land{s}'
............
*
THE COAST
was now in the hands,
not of the Canaanites,
but of other 'newcomers' {before/during & after the Explosian at Thera?},
those Aegean peoples, the Philistines;
and their cities,
Gaza, Gath, Ashdod, Ashcalon and Joppa,
at that time successsfully withstood
the Hebrew
attack?!
*
THUS
for many generations
the children of Avraham remained an obscure people of the hilly back-
country engaged in incessant bickerings with the Philistines
and with the kindred tribes about them,
Moabites, Midianites,
and so forth
...
*
The interested myDi-reader
will find in the Book of Judges
a record of their struggles and disasters
during this period!?!
*
FOR
frankly told
very largely it is a record of disasters
and failures
........
*
FOR MOST
OF THIS PERIOD
the Hebrews were ruled,
so far as there was any rule among them,
by priestly judges
selected by the elders of the people,
but at last,
somewhen towards 1000 B.C.,
they chose themselves a king, Sha'ul, to lead them in battle ...
BUT Sha'ul's leading was no great improvement upon the leading of
the Judges;
he perished with his son Jonathan
under the hail of Philistine arrows {iron!} at the battle of Mount Gilboa
{I visited that area before the Six Day War in the springtime of 1967 for the first time}, his armour went into the temple of the Philistine Venus,
and their bodies were nailed to the walls
of Beth-She'an
....
*
HIS
SUCCESSOR DAVID
was more successful and more politic:
with King David dawned the only period of real prosperity the Hebrew peoples were ever to know until recently
{before and after 1948?}
...
IT
{David's rule and that of his son Salomon!}
was based on a close alliance with the Phoenician city of Tyre,
whose King Hiram seems to have been a man of great intelligence and enterprise!
*
HE
wished to secure a trade route to the Red Sea thru the Hebrew hill country:
NORMALLY Phoenician trade went to the Red Sea by Egypt,
but Egypt was in a state of profound disorder at that time;
there may have been other obstructions to Phoenician trade along this line,
and at any rate Hiram established the very closest relations both with David and with his son and
successor, Sjlomo
{Salman}
...
*
UNDER
HIRAM's auspices the walls,
palace and temple of Jerusalem arose,
and in return Hiram built and launched his ships {from Elat/Aqaba} on the
Red Sea
..............
AND A VERY
CONSIDERABLE TRADE
passed northward and southward thru Jerusalem.
And Solomon achieved a prosperity and magnificence unprecedented
in the experience of his people
..............
He was even given a daughter of Pharaoh
in marriage
........
*
BUT
it is well to keep the proportion of things in mind!?!
AT THE CLIMAX of his glories
Solomon was only a little subordinate king in a little city?
HIS POWER
was so transitory
that within a few years of his death
SHISHAK, the first Pharaoh of the twenty-second dynasty,
had taken Jerusalem and looted most of its
splendours
.............
*
To me it seems
myDi-'history' is repeating the same mistakes over and over again all over the world: the names of king and countries might differ, but
their actions and motives betray
their lack of knowledge?
*
History
is filled with Saddamns,
Bushes, Blairs &
Balkenendes
...
@
And whether we like it or not:
we as myDi-buccaneers are also
part of it
one way or
another
.............
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