To: Greg or e who wrote (62306 ) 11/10/2014 4:46:40 AM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to You aren't thinking clearly, the habiru more than likely refers to some scattering to the highlands of some on the loose primitive clans, not to a real 'people' per se, but wandering nomadic theives & raiding opportunists, again you aren't doing your homework. They're not responsible for any of the original great creation & origin narratives or vast ancient wisdom literatures that come out of Mesopotomia or Egypt, this you can be sure. ( a 1000 yrs later some amalgamation of these tribes cohese, taking from those older cultures, identifying with & imitatiing that greatness) Habiruen.wikipedia.org Depending on the source and epoch, these Habiru are variously described as nomadic or semi-nomadic, rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, and bowmen, servants, slaves, migrant laborers, etc. As more texts were uncovered throughout the Near East, it became clear that the Habiru were mentioned in contexts ranging from unemployed agricultural workers and vagrants, to mounted mercenary bowmen. The context differed depending upon where the references were found. Though found throughout most of the Fertile Crescent , the arc of civilization "extending from the Tigris-Euphrates river basins over to the Mediterranean littoral and down through the Nile Valley during the Second Millennium, the principal area of historical interest is in their engagement with Egypt." [ 2 ] Carol Redmount, who wrote 'Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt' in The Oxford History of the Biblical World, concluded that the term "Habiru" had no common ethnic affiliations, that they spoke no common language, and that they normally led a marginal and sometimes lawless existence on the fringes of settled society. [ 3 ] [ 3 ]
